transmembrane
"transmembrane" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“transmembrane” is uncommon English (frequency #52,683 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,683
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Traversing a cellular membrane.
Corpus desk
Index EN-transmembrane · transmembrane · English
transmembrane · rank #52,683 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,683
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH travail
Nearest frequency peer: travail (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “transmembrane”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- TMA
TMA
47,322 corpus weight
- Tobruk
Tobruk
47,321 corpus weight
- transmembra…
transmembrane
47,318 corpus weight
- travail
travail
47,317 corpus weight
- trophic
trophic
47,316 corpus weight
- tsarist
tsarist
47,315 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “transmembrane” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | transmembrane |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #52,683 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “transmembrane” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
transmembrane is uncommon English at frequency #52,683 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for transmembrane in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From trans- + membrane. The correct English form is transmembrane, spelled T-R-A-N-S-M-E-M-B-R-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Traversing a cellular membrane.
- 2Of or pertaining to a transmembrane protein or segment.
Etymology
From trans- + membrane.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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