enterocyte
noun
enterocyte is a noun meaning “A cell found in the lining of the intestines and colon, participating in absorption of nutrients and secretion of digestive enzymes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-T-E-R-O-C-Y-T-E, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of enterocyte is enterocytes.
What does enterocyte mean?
noun
- 1
A cell found in the lining of the intestines and colon, participating in absorption of nutrients and secretion of digestive enzymes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of enterocyte
- enterocytes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is enterocyte?
Enterocyte appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does enterocyte come from?
From entero- + -cyte.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).