oxidoreductase
noun
oxidoreductase is a noun meaning “Any enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-X-I-D-O-R-E-D-U-C-T-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of oxidoreductase is oxidoreductases.
What does oxidoreductase mean?
noun
- 1
Any enzyme that catalyzes an oxidation-reduction (redox) reaction.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of oxidoreductase
- oxidoreductases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oxidoreductase?
Oxidoreductase appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 145,125th 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).
Oxidoreductase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enzyme that catalyzes redox reactions:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Oxidoreduktase |
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 oxidoreductase come from?
From its morphology, oxido- + reductase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).