glycolysis
/ɡlaɪˈkɒlɪsɪs/noun
glycolysis is spelled G-L-Y-C-O-L-Y-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is glycosis: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 26 of all searches for the word. Glycolysis is a noun meaning “The cellular degradation of the simple sugar glucose to yield pyruvic acid (pyruvate), and ATP as an energy…”. The plural of glycolysis is glycolyses.
How many letters and syllables are in glycolysis?
| Letters | 10: G-L-Y-C-O-L-Y-S-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, glycosis, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
How do you spell glycolysis?
Glycolysis is spelled G-L-Y-C-O-L-Y-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 26 of the searches for glycolysis 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.
How common is glycolysis?
Glycolysis appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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).
How do you pronounce glycolysis?
- /ɡlaɪˈkɒlɪsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of glycolysis
- glycolyses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does glycolysis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The cellular degradation of the simple sugar glucose to yield pyruvic acid (pyruvate), and ATP as an energy source
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Glycolysis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cellular degradation of glucose:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | glycolyse |
| Portuguese | glicólise |
| Spanish | glicólisis, glicolisis, glucólisis, glucolisis |
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.
Where does glycolysis come from?
From glyco- + -lysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).