sarcolemma
noun
sarcolemma is spelled S-A-R-C-O-L-E-M-M-A. The wrong spelling people search most is sacrolemma: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Sarcolemma is a noun meaning “A thin cell membrane that surrounds a striated muscle fibre”. The plural of sarcolemma is sarcolemmas or sarcolemmata.
How many letters and syllables are in sarcolemma?
| Letters | 10: S-A-R-C-O-L-E-M-M-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 60 million words; the 243,301st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sacrolemma, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell sarcolemma?
Sarcolemma is spelled S-A-R-C-O-L-E-M-M-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for sarcolemma in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is sarcolemma?
Sarcolemma appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 sarcolemma
- sarcolemmas plural
- sarcolemmata plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sarcolemma mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A thin cell membrane that surrounds a striated muscle fibre.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sarcolemma in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a thin cell membrane that surrounds a striated muscle fibre:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sarcolemme |
| Spanish | sarcolema |
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 sarcolemma come from?
From sarco- + lemma.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).