phosphodiester
noun
phosphodiester is a noun meaning “any of many biologically active compounds in which two alcohols form ester bonds with phosphate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-D-I-E-S-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phosphodiester is phosphodiesters.
What does phosphodiester mean?
noun
- 1
any of many biologically active compounds in which two alcohols form ester bonds with phosphate
- 2
any phospholipid, such as lecithin, that has two ester groups
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce phosphodiester?
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-phosphodiester.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of phosphodiester
- phosphodiesters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phosphodiester?
Phosphodiester appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th 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).