transferrin
/tɹænzˈfɛɹɪn/noun
transferrin is spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R-R-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is transferin: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 40 of all searches for the word. Transferrin is a noun meaning “A glycoprotein, a beta-globulin, in blood serum that combines with and transports iron”. The plural of transferrin is transferrins.
How do you spell transferrin?
Transferrin is spelled T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R-R-I-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for transferrin 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 transferrin mean?
noun
- 1
A glycoprotein, a beta-globulin, in blood serum that combines with and transports iron.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce transferrin?
- US /tɹænzˈfɛɹɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of transferrin
- transferrins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is transferrin?
Transferrin appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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).
Transferrin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense glycoprotein:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Transferrin |
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 transferrin come from?
From trans- + ferr- + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).