thymidine
/ˈθaɪmɪdiːn/noun
thymidine is spelled T-H-Y-M-I-D-I-N-E: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 97,057th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, thymidine means “The nucleoside consisting of a combination of deoxyribose and thymine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of thymidine is thymidines.
How many letters and syllables are in thymidine?
| Letters | 9: T-H-Y-M-I-D-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 10 million words; the 97,057th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is thymidine?
Thymidine appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 97,057th 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).
How do you pronounce thymidine?
- /ˈθaɪmɪdiːn/
Thymidine has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-thymidine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thymidine
- thymidines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does thymidine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The nucleoside consisting of a combination of deoxyribose and thymine
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate thymidine?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of thymidine: dThd.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Thymidine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a nucleoside:
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.