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macrocycle

noun

macrocycle is spelled M-A-C-R-O-C-Y-C-L-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, macrocycle means “a cyclic macromolecule, or a macrocyclic portion of a molecule” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of macrocycle is macrocycles.

How many letters and syllables are in macrocycle?

Letters10: M-A-C-R-O-C-Y-C-L-E
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd 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 macrocycle?

Macrocycle appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 macrocycle

  • macrocycles plural

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

What does macrocycle mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    a cyclic macromolecule, or a macrocyclic portion of a molecule

  2. 2

    In sports training, an annual plan that works towards peaking for the goal competition of the year.

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

Where does macrocycle come from?

From macro- + cycle.

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

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