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histochemistry

noun

histochemistry is spelled H-I-S-T-O-C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, histochemistry means “The branch of histology dealing with the chemistry of cells and tissues” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in histochemistry?

Letters14: H-I-S-T-O-C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y
In writingabout once in every 35 million words; the 182,517th 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 histochemistry?

Histochemistry appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).

What does histochemistry mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The branch of histology dealing with the chemistry of cells and tissues.

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

Histochemistry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the branch of histology dealing with the chemistry of cells and tissues:

LanguageWords
GermanHistochemie
Portuguesehistoquímica
Spanishhistoquímica

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 histochemistry come from?

From histo- + chemistry.

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

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