hydrogenase
noun
hydrogenase is a noun meaning “Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substrate by the reversible oxidation of hydrogen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-G-E-N-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrogenase is hydrogenases.
What does hydrogenase mean?
noun
- 1
Any enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of a substrate by the reversible oxidation of hydrogen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hydrogenase
- hydrogenases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrogenase?
Hydrogenase appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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).
Hydrogenase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydrogénase |
| German | Hydrogenase |
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 hydrogenase come from?
From hydrogen + -ase, after dehydrogenase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).