ferredoxin
noun
ferredoxin is spelled F-E-R-R-E-D-O-X-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is ferrodoxin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Ferredoxin is a noun meaning “Any of a class of iron and sulfur-containing proteins, found in green plants, that function in electron…”. The plural of ferredoxin is ferredoxins.
How do you spell ferredoxin?
Ferredoxin is spelled F-E-R-R-E-D-O-X-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for ferredoxin in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does ferredoxin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of iron and sulfur-containing proteins, found in green plants, that function in electron transport and in photosynthesis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ferredoxin
- ferredoxins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ferredoxin?
Ferredoxin appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
Ferredoxin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Ferredoxin |
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.