proteinaceous
adjective
proteinaceous is spelled P-R-O-T-E-I-N-A-C-E-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is proteinacious: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 16 of all searches for the word. Proteinaceous is an adjective meaning “Of, pertaining to, or consisting of protein”.
How many letters and syllables are in proteinaceous?
| Letters | 13: P-R-O-T-E-I-N-A-C-E-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, proteinacious, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 proteinaceous?
Proteinaceous is spelled P-R-O-T-E-I-N-A-C-E-O-U-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 16 of the searches for proteinaceous 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 proteinaceous?
Proteinaceous appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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 pronounce proteinaceous?
Proteinaceous has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of proteinaceous
- more proteinaceous comparative
- most proteinaceous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does proteinaceous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, pertaining to, or consisting of protein
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does proteinaceous come from?
From protein + -aceous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).