esterase
/ˈɛstəreɪz/noun
esterase is a noun meaning “Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an ester” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-S-T-E-R-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of esterase is esterases.
What does esterase mean?
noun
- 1
Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of an ester
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce esterase?
- /ˈɛstəreɪz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-esterase.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of esterase
- esterases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is esterase?
Esterase appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).
Esterase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of a certain class of enzymes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | esterasa |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.