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neprilysin

/ˌnɛpɹɪˈlaɪsɪn/noun

neprilysin is spelled N-E-P-R-I-L-Y-S-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is neprylisin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Neprilysin is a noun meaning “A particular type of metalloprotease, namely membrane metallo-endopeptidase (MME)”. The plural of neprilysin is neprilysins.

How many letters and syllables are in neprilysin?

Letters10: N-E-P-R-I-L-Y-S-I-N
In writingabout once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, neprylisin, 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 neprilysin?

Neprilysin is spelled N-E-P-R-I-L-Y-S-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 17 of the searches for neprilysin in either form.

neprilysinthe right spelling160 searches a month
neprylisiny in place of i, i in place of y10 searches a month

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 neprilysin?

Neprilysin appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 neprilysin?

  • /ˌnɛpɹɪˈlaɪsɪn/

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

Forms of neprilysin

  • neprilysins plural

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

What does neprilysin mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A particular type of metalloprotease, namely membrane metallo-endopeptidase (MME)

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

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