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leuco

adjective

leuco is spelled L-E-U-C-O: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, leuco means “Of or relating to leuco dyes and their related compounds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in leuco?

Letters5: L-E-U-C-O
In writingabout once in every 27 million words; the 157,761st 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 leuco?

Leuco 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).

Forms of leuco

  • leuko

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

What does leuco mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or relating to leuco dyes and their related compounds.

    leuco base

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

Where does leuco come from?

From Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”).

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

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