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isoenzyme

noun

isoenzyme is spelled I-S-O-E-N-Z-Y-M-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, isoenzyme means “Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but have structures that are (minorly or substantially) different and have physical…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of isoenzyme is isoenzymes.

How many letters and syllables are in isoenzyme?

Letters9: I-S-O-E-N-Z-Y-M-E
In writingabout once in every 48 million words; the 214,628th 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 isoenzyme?

Isoenzyme appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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).

Forms of isoenzyme

  • isoenzymes plural

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

What does isoenzyme mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction but have structures that are (minorly or substantially) different and have physical, biochemical, and immunological properties that are (minorly or substantially) different.

    Near-synonym: allozyme

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

Where does isoenzyme come from?

From iso- + enzyme.

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

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