proteome
/ˈpɹəʊtɪəʊm/
"proteome" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“proteome” is uncommon English (frequency #89,802 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,802
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome.
Corpus desk
Index EN-proteome · proteome · English
proteome · rank #89,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,802
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pronotum
Nearest frequency peer: pronotum (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “proteome”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- probative
probative
10,204 corpus weight
- pronotum
pronotum
10,200 corpus weight
- proteome
proteome
10,199 corpus weight
- ptarmigan
ptarmigan
10,198 corpus weight
- publick
publick
10,197 corpus weight
- Puntland
Puntland
10,195 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “proteome” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | proteome |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɹəʊtɪəʊm/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “proteome” in English
Rare enough to double-check
proteome is uncommon English at frequency #89,802 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɹəʊtɪəʊm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for proteome in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of protein + genome or proteo- + -ome. The correct English form is proteome, spelled P-R-O-T-E-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1The complete set of proteins encoded by a particular genome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how proteome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis allows the separation of thousands of proteins, and provides the means for separating the proteome (the PROTEin complement expressed by a genOME) of a simple species, or the protein component of a complex tissue.
So now the quest is to crack the human proteome – a concept so novel that the term proteome didn't even exist a decade ago.
Etymology
Blend of protein + genome or proteo- + -ome.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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