fascin
noun
fascin is a noun meaning “An actin-bundling protein” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-S-C-I-N, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fascin is fascins.
What does fascin mean?
noun
- 1
An actin-bundling protein.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fascin
- fascins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fascin?
Fascin 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 fascin come from?
From Latin fascis (“bundle”) + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).