kallikrein
/ˌkæl.əˈkɹiː.ɪn/noun
kallikrein is spelled K-A-L-L-I-K-R-E-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is kallekrein: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Kallikrein is a noun meaning “A hypotensive protease that liberates kinins from blood plasma proteins and is used therapeutically for…”. The plural of kallikrein is kallikreins.
How many letters and syllables are in kallikrein?
| Letters | 10: K-A-L-L-I-K-R-E-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, kallekrein, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell kallikrein?
Kallikrein is spelled K-A-L-L-I-K-R-E-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for kallikrein in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is kallikrein?
Kallikrein appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).
How do you pronounce kallikrein?
- US /ˌkæl.əˈkɹiː.ɪn/
- US /kəˈlɪk.ɹi.ɪn/
Kallikrein has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kallikrein
- kallikreins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does kallikrein mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A hypotensive protease that liberates kinins from blood plasma proteins and is used therapeutically for vasodilation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Kallikrein in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a protease:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | calicreína |
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 kallikrein come from?
From Ancient Greek κᾰλλίκρεᾰς (kăllíkreăs, “sweetbread, pancreas”) + -in, from κᾰλλι- (kălli-, “beautiful”) + κρέᾰς (kréăs, “flesh, meat”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).