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photoactivation

noun

photoactivation is spelled P-H-O-T-O-A-C-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, photoactivation means “The absorption of energy from a photon in raising a molecule (or chromophore) from the ground state; especially the first stage of photosynthesis in…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of photoactivation is photoactivations.

How many letters and syllables are in photoactivation?

Letters15: P-H-O-T-O-A-C-T-I-V-A-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 95 million words; the 313,259th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is photoactivation?

Photoactivation appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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 photoactivation

  • photoactivations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does photoactivation mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The absorption of energy from a photon in raising a molecule (or chromophore) from the ground state; especially the first stage of photosynthesis in which energy is absorbed by chlorophyll

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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