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pectinase

noun

pectinase is a noun meaning “Any protease that break down pectin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-C-T-I-N-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pectinase is pectinases.

What does pectinase mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Any protease that break down pectin.

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

Forms of pectinase

  • pectinases plural

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

How common is pectinase?

Pectinase appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).