frameshifting
noun
frameshifting is a noun meaning “frameshift mutation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-A-M-E-S-H-I-F-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of frameshifting is frameshiftings.
What does frameshifting mean?
noun
- 1
frameshift mutation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of frameshifting
- frameshiftings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is frameshifting?
Frameshifting appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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 frameshifting come from?
From frame + shifting.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).