leukotriene
/ˌlu.koʊˈtɹaɪ.in/noun
leukotriene is spelled L-E-U-K-O-T-R-I-E-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is leukotrine: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Leukotriene is a noun meaning “Any of several physiologically active lipids, related to the prostaglandins, that participate in allergic…”. The plural of leukotriene is leukotrienes.
How many letters and syllables are in leukotriene?
| Letters | 11: L-E-U-K-O-T-R-I-E-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, leukotrine, about 20 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 leukotriene?
Leukotriene is spelled L-E-U-K-O-T-R-I-E-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for leukotriene 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 leukotriene?
Leukotriene appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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 leukotriene?
- US /ˌlu.koʊˈtɹaɪ.in/
Leukotriene 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 leukotriene
- leukotrienes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does leukotriene mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of several physiologically active lipids, related to the prostaglandins, that participate in allergic responses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate leukotriene?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of leukotriene: LT.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Leukotriene in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of several physiologically active lipids:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Leukotrien |
| Spanish | leucotrieno |
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 leukotriene come from?
From leuko- + triene, coined by Swedish biochemist Bengt I. Samuelsson.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).