flavoprotein
noun
flavoprotein is a noun meaning “any of a group of enzymes, containing flavin, that act as dehydrogenases” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-V-O-P-R-O-T-E-I-N, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flavoprotein is flavoproteins.
What does flavoprotein mean?
noun
- 1
any of a group of enzymes, containing flavin, that act as dehydrogenases
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flavoprotein
- flavoproteins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flavoprotein?
Flavoprotein appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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 flavoprotein come from?
From flavo- + protein.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).