tetrapeptide
noun
tetrapeptide is a noun meaning “An organic compound formed from four amino acids joined by peptide bonds” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-P-E-P-T-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 74 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tetrapeptide is tetrapeptides.
What does tetrapeptide mean?
noun
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An organic compound formed from four amino acids joined by peptide bonds.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tetrapeptide
- tetrapeptides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tetrapeptide?
Tetrapeptide appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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).
Where does tetrapeptide come from?
From tetra- + peptide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).