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hemagglutinin

noun

hemagglutinin is spelled H-E-M-A-G-G-L-U-T-I-N-I-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hemagglutinin means “An antigenic glycoprotein that causes agglutination of red blood cells” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hemagglutinin is hemagglutinins.

How many letters and syllables are in hemagglutinin?

Letters13: H-E-M-A-G-G-L-U-T-I-N-I-N
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is hemagglutinin?

Hemagglutinin appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).

Forms of hemagglutinin

  • hemagglutinins plural
  • haemagglutinin UK
  • haemoagglutinin UK

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does hemagglutinin mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An antigenic glycoprotein that causes agglutination of red blood cells

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does hemagglutinin come from?

From hem- + agglutinin.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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