menaquinone
/ˌmɛn.əˈkwɪˌnoʊn/noun
menaquinone is spelled M-E-N-A-Q-U-I-N-O-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is menoquinone: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 37 of all searches for the word. Menaquinone is a noun meaning “A pale yellow crystalline naphthoquinone C₄₁H₅₆O₂ that is obtained especially from putrefied fish meal and…”. The plural of menaquinone is menaquinones.
How many letters and syllables are in menaquinone?
| Letters | 11: M-E-N-A-Q-U-I-N-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, menoquinone, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell menaquinone?
Menaquinone is spelled M-E-N-A-Q-U-I-N-O-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for menaquinone 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 menaquinone?
Menaquinone appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 menaquinone?
- UK /ˌmɛn.əˈkwɪn.əʊn/
- US /ˌmɛn.əˈkwɪˌnoʊn/
Menaquinone has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with menaquinone?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as menaquinone from its last stressed vowel (/ɪnoʊn/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of menaquinone
- menaquinones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does menaquinone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A pale yellow crystalline naphthoquinone C₄₁H₅₆O₂ that is obtained especially from putrefied fish meal and produced by bacteria in the large intestine and essential for the blood-clotting process. It is much more unsaturated than vitamin K₁ and slightly less active biologically, and is an isoprenoid derivative of menadione.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does menaquinone come from?
From me(thyl) + na(phtho)quinone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).