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nucleoprotein

noun

nucleoprotein is spelled N-U-C-L-E-O-P-R-O-T-E-I-N: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 37 million words in written English, the 187,122nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nucleoprotein means “Any complex of a nucleic acid and a protein” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nucleoprotein is nucleoproteins.

How many letters and syllables are in nucleoprotein?

Letters13: N-U-C-L-E-O-P-R-O-T-E-I-N
In writingabout once in every 37 million words; the 187,122nd 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 nucleoprotein?

Nucleoprotein 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).

Forms of nucleoprotein

  • nucleoproteins plural

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

What does nucleoprotein mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Any complex of a nucleic acid and a protein.

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

Nucleoprotein in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchnucléoprotéine

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 nucleoprotein come from?

From nucleo- + protein.

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

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