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thioguanine

/ˌθaɪ.oʊˈɡwɑˌnin/noun

thioguanine is a noun meaning “US and UK spelling of tioguanine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-I-O-G-U-A-N-I-N-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 95 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thioguanine is thioguanines.

What does thioguanine mean?

noun

  1. 1

    US and UK spelling of tioguanine.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce thioguanine?

  • UK /ˌθʌɪ.ə(ʊ)ˈɡwɑː.niːn/
  • US /ˌθaɪ.oʊˈɡwɑˌnin/

Thioguanine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of thioguanine

  • thioguanines plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is thioguanine?

Thioguanine appears about once in every 95 million words in written English, the 313,259th 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).