nucleoside
/ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌsaɪd/noun
nucleoside is spelled N-U-C-L-E-O-S-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is nucleocide: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Nucleoside is a noun meaning “an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a…”. The plural of nucleoside is nucleosides.
How many letters and syllables are in nucleoside?
| Letters | 10: N-U-C-L-E-O-S-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 71,529th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, nucleocide, 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 nucleoside?
Nucleoside is spelled N-U-C-L-E-O-S-I-D-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 40 of the searches for nucleoside 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 nucleoside?
Nucleoside appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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 nucleoside?
- /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌsaɪd/
- US /ˈn(j)u(ː)kliəˌsaɪd/
- US /ˈn(j)u(ː)klioʊˌsaɪd/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nucleoside.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of nucleoside
- nucleosides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nucleoside mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
an organic molecule in which a nitrogenous heterocyclic base (or nucleobase), which can be either a double-ringed purine or a single-ringed pyrimidine, is covalently attached to a five-carbon pentose sugar (deoxyribose in DNA or ribose in RNA). When the phosphate group is covalently attached to the pentose sugar, it forms a nucleotide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does nucleoside come from?
Probably from nucleo- + (glyc)oside.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).