ribonucleotide
noun
ribonucleotide is a noun meaning “Any nucleotide having ribose as its sugar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-I-B-O-N-U-C-L-E-O-T-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ribonucleotide is ribonucleotides.
What does ribonucleotide mean?
noun
- 1
Any nucleotide having ribose as its sugar
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ribonucleotide
- ribonucleotides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ribonucleotide?
Ribonucleotide appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).
Ribonucleotide in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense nucleotide having ribose as its sugar:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ribonucléotide |
| German | Ribonukleotid |
| Spanish | ribonucleótido |
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 ribonucleotide come from?
From ribo- + nucleotide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).