lipofuscin
noun
lipofuscin is spelled L-I-P-O-F-U-S-C-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is lipofusin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 19 of all searches for the word. Lipofuscin is a noun meaning “Any of a family of pigmented lipid granules that accumulate in several body tissues”. The plural of lipofuscin is lipofuscins.
How many letters and syllables are in lipofuscin?
| Letters | 10: L-I-P-O-F-U-S-C-I-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lipofusin, 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 lipofuscin?
Lipofuscin is spelled L-I-P-O-F-U-S-C-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 19 of the searches for lipofuscin 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 lipofuscin?
Lipofuscin appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 lipofuscin
- lipofuscins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lipofuscin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of a family of pigmented lipid granules that accumulate in several body tissues.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does lipofuscin come from?
From lipo- + fuscin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).