ribonucleic
adjective
ribonucleic is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to ribonucleic acid (RNA) or its derivatives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-B-O-N-U-C-L-E-I-C and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ribonucleic mean?
adjective
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Of or pertaining to ribonucleic acid (RNA) or its derivatives
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ribonucleic?
Ribonucleic has 5 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).
How common is ribonucleic?
Ribonucleic appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Ribonucleic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to RNA or its derivatives:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ribonucléique |
| Portuguese | ribonucléico |
| Spanish | ribonucleico |
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 ribonucleic come from?
From ribose + nucleic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).