peptidoglycan
noun
peptidoglycan is spelled P-E-P-T-I-D-O-G-L-Y-C-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is peptidoglican: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 76 of all searches for the word. Peptidoglycan is a noun meaning “A polymer of glycan and peptides found in bacterial cell walls”. The plural of peptidoglycan is peptidoglycans.
How do you spell peptidoglycan?
Peptidoglycan is spelled P-E-P-T-I-D-O-G-L-Y-C-A-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 39 of the searches for peptidoglycan 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.
What does peptidoglycan mean?
noun
- 1
A polymer of glycan and peptides found in bacterial cell walls
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of peptidoglycan
- peptidoglycans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is peptidoglycan?
Peptidoglycan appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 peptidoglycan come from?
From peptido- + glycan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).