saponin
/ˈsæpənɪn/noun
saponin is a noun meaning “Any of various steroid glycosides found in plant tissues that dissolve in water to give a soapy froth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-A-P-O-N-I-N, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of saponin is saponins.
What does saponin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various steroid glycosides found in plant tissues that dissolve in water to give a soapy froth.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce saponin?
- /ˈsæpənɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-saponin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of saponin
- saponins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is saponin?
Saponin appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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).
Saponin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense steroid glycoside:
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 saponin come from?
From sapon- + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).