thylakoid
noun
thylakoid is spelled T-H-Y-L-A-K-O-I-D. The wrong spelling people search most is tylakoid: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 52 of all searches for the word. Thylakoid is a noun meaning “a folded membrane within plant chloroplasts from which grana are made, used in photosynthesis”. The plural of thylakoid is thylakoids.
How do you spell thylakoid?
Thylakoid is spelled T-H-Y-L-A-K-O-I-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 52 of the searches for thylakoid 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.
What does thylakoid mean?
noun
- 1
a folded membrane within plant chloroplasts from which grana are made, used in photosynthesis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thylakoid
- thylakoids plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thylakoid?
Thylakoid appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Thylakoid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense membrane within plant chloroplasts:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | thylakoïde |
| Spanish | tilacoide |
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 thylakoid come from?
From Ancient Greek θύλακος (thúlakos, “sack, bag”) + -oid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).