phosphatase
noun
phosphatase is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-A-S-E. The wrong spelling people search most is phosphotase: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Phosphatase is a noun meaning “Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates…”. The plural of phosphatase is phosphatases.
How many letters and syllables are in phosphatase?
| Letters | 11: P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-A-S-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, phosphotase, about 30 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 phosphatase?
Phosphatase is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-A-T-A-S-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for phosphatase 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 phosphatase?
Phosphatase appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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).
Forms of phosphatase
- phosphatases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does phosphatase mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Phosphatase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense an enzyme that hydrolyzes phosphate esters:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | phosphatase |
| German | Phosphatase |
| Portuguese | fosfatase |
| Spanish | fosfatasa |
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 phosphatase come from?
From phosphate + -ase.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).