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protocone

noun

protocone is spelled P-R-O-T-O-C-O-N-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, protocone means “A cusp in the corner of an upper molar tooth in mammals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of protocone is protocones.

How many letters and syllables are in protocone?

Letters9: P-R-O-T-O-C-O-N-E
In writingabout once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd 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 protocone?

Protocone appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 protocone

  • protocones plural

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

What does protocone mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A cusp in the corner of an upper molar tooth in mammals.

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

Where does protocone come from?

From proto- + cone.

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

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