posttranslational
adjective
posttranslational is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to the period after a protein has been translated from mRNA” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-S-T-T-R-A-N-S-L-A-T-I-O-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does posttranslational mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to the period after a protein has been translated from mRNA.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of posttranslational
- post-translational
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is posttranslational?
Posttranslational appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
Posttranslational in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Of or pertaining to the period after a protein has been translated from mRNA:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | post-traductionnel |
| Portuguese | pós-traducional |
| Spanish | posttraduccional |
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 posttranslational come from?
From post- + translational.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).