phosphofructokinase
noun
phosphofructokinase is a noun meaning “Any of a group of kinase enzymes that convert fructose phosphates to biphosphates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-F-R-U-C-T-O-K-I-N-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 54 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of phosphofructokinase is phosphofructokinases.
What does phosphofructokinase mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a group of kinase enzymes that convert fructose phosphates to biphosphates
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of phosphofructokinase
- phosphofructokinases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is phosphofructokinase?
Phosphofructokinase appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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 phosphofructokinase?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of phosphofructokinase: PFK.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Phosphofructokinase in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense enzyme:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Phosphofructokinase |
| Spanish | fosfofructoquinasa |
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.