monoclonal
mon·o·clo·nal/ˌmɑn.əˈkloʊ.nəl/adjective, noun
monoclonal is spelled M-O-N-O-C-L-O-N-A-L, 4 syllables: mon·o·clo·nal. The wrong spelling people search most is monocolonal: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Monoclonal is an adjective meaning “genetically engineered from a single clone; used especially of a protein or antibody”.
How many letters and syllables are in monoclonal?
| Letters | 10: M-O-N-O-C-L-O-N-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: mon·o·clo·nal |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,912th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, monocolonal, 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 monoclonal?
Monoclonal is spelled M-O-N-O-C-L-O-N-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 32 of the searches for monoclonal 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 monoclonal?
Monoclonal appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,912th 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 monoclonal?
- UK /ˌmɒn.əˈkləʊ.nəl/
- US /ˌmɑn.əˈkloʊ.nəl/
Monoclonal has 4 syllables, split mon·o·clo·nal in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-monoclonal.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with monoclonal?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as monoclonal from its last stressed vowel (/oʊnəl/):
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 monoclonal
- monoclonals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does monoclonal mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
genetically engineered from a single clone; used especially of a protein or antibody
noun
- 1
something produced from a single clone, especially a monoclonal antibody
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Monoclonal in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense genetically engineered from a single clone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | monoclonal |
| German | monoklonal |
| Spanish | monoclonal |
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 monoclonal come from?
From mono- + clonal.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).