inosine
noun
inosine is a noun meaning “Any nucleoside formed from hypoxanthine attached to a ribose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-O-S-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of inosine is inosines.
What does inosine mean?
noun
- 1
Any nucleoside formed from hypoxanthine attached to a ribose
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of inosine
- inosines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is inosine?
Inosine appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).
Inosine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Any nucleoside formed from hypoxanthine attached to a ribose:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inosine |
| German | Inosin |
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 inosine come from?
From ἰνός (inós), genitive singular of ἴς (ís, “sinew, muscle”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).