ribonucleoprotein
noun
ribonucleoprotein is a noun meaning “Any nucleoprotein that contains RNA” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-B-O-N-U-C-L-E-O-P-R-O-T-E-I-N, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ribonucleoprotein is ribonucleoproteins.
What does ribonucleoprotein mean?
noun
- 1
Any nucleoprotein that contains RNA.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ribonucleoprotein
- ribonucleoproteins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ribonucleoprotein?
Ribonucleoprotein appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).
Ribonucleoprotein in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any nucleoprotein that contains RNA:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ribonucléoprotéine |
| Spanish | ribonucleoproteína |
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 ribonucleoprotein come from?
From ribo- + nucleoprotein.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).