hypermethylation
noun
hypermethylation is a noun meaning “an increase in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-M-E-T-H-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypermethylation is hypermethylations.
What does hypermethylation mean?
noun
- 1
an increase in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypermethylation
- hypermethylations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypermethylation?
Hypermethylation appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).
Where does hypermethylation come from?
From hyper- + methylation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).