hypomethylation
noun
hypomethylation is a noun meaning “a decrease in the epigenetic methylation of cytosine and adenosine residues in DNA” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-O-M-E-T-H-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypomethylation is hypomethylations.
What does hypomethylation mean?
noun
- 1
a decrease 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 hypomethylation
- hypomethylations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypomethylation?
Hypomethylation appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th 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 hypomethylation come from?
From hypo- + methylation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).