nanogram
noun
nanogram is a noun meaning “An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁹ grams. Symbol: ng” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-N-O-G-R-A-M and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 37 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nanogram is nanograms.
What does nanogram mean?
noun
- 1
An SI unit of mass equal to 10⁻⁹ grams. Symbol: ng
Holonyms: microgram < milligram < gram < kilogram < megagram < gigagram
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nanogram?
Nanogram has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nanogram
- nanograms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nanogram?
Nanogram appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd 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).
Nanogram in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | nanogramme |
| Spanish | nanogramo |
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 nanogram come from?
From nano- + gram.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).