phosphorylation
noun
phosphorylation is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is phosphorilation: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 79 of all searches for the word. Phosphorylation is a noun meaning “the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor; often catalysed by enzymes”. The plural of phosphorylation is phosphorylations.
How many letters and syllables are in phosphorylation?
| Letters | 15: P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 29,270th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, phosphorilation, about 10 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 phosphorylation?
Phosphorylation is spelled P-H-O-S-P-H-O-R-Y-L-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 79 of the searches for phosphorylation 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 phosphorylation?
Phosphorylation appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,270th 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 phosphorylation
- phosphorylations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does phosphorylation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor; often catalysed by enzymes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Phosphorylation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | phosphorylation |
| German | Phosphorylierung |
| Portuguese | fosforilação |
| Spanish | fosforilación |
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 phosphorylation come from?
From phosphoryl + -ation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).