proteasome
noun
proteasome is a noun meaning “A complex protein, found in bacterial, archeal and eukaryotic cells, that breaks down other proteins via proteolysis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-R-O-T-E-A-S-O-M-E, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of proteasome is proteasomes.
What does proteasome mean?
noun
- 1
A complex protein, found in bacterial, archeal and eukaryotic cells, that breaks down other proteins via proteolysis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of proteasome
- proteasomes plural
- proteosome
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is proteasome?
Proteasome appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 82,325th 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).
Proteasome in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | protéasome |
| Spanish | proteasoma |
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.