fructan
noun
fructan is a noun meaning “Any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-U-C-T-A-N, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fructan is fructans.
What does fructan mean?
noun
- 1
Any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fructan
- fructans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fructan?
Fructan appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).
Fructan in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense polysaccharide composed of fructose residues:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | fructane |
| Portuguese | frutano |
| Spanish | fructosano, fructano |
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.