pepsinogen
noun
pepsinogen is a noun meaning “A zymogen that is converted into pepsin by the hydrochloric acid in the stomach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-P-S-I-N-O-G-E-N, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pepsinogen is pepsinogens.
What does pepsinogen mean?
noun
- 1
A zymogen that is converted into pepsin by the hydrochloric acid in the stomach.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pepsinogen
- pepsinogens plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pepsinogen?
Pepsinogen appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
Where does pepsinogen come from?
From pepsin + -gen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).