flagellin
noun
flagellin is a noun meaning “The main protein in the flagella of bacteria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-G-E-L-L-I-N, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flagellin is flagellins.
What does flagellin mean?
noun
- 1
The main protein in the flagella of bacteria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flagellin
- flagellins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flagellin?
Flagellin appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th 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 flagellin come from?
From flagellum + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).