phosphoenolpyruvate
noun
phosphoenolpyruvate is a noun meaning “A carboxylic acid, with the chemical formula C₃H₅O₆P, derived from pyruvate and an intermediate in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-E-N-O-L-P-Y-R-U-V-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phosphoenolpyruvate is phosphoenolpyruvates.
What does phosphoenolpyruvate mean?
noun
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A carboxylic acid, with the chemical formula C₃H₅O₆P, derived from pyruvate and an intermediate in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of phosphoenolpyruvate
- phosphoenolpyruvates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phosphoenolpyruvate?
Phosphoenolpyruvate appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
How do you abbreviate phosphoenolpyruvate?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of phosphoenolpyruvate: PEP.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).