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trehalose

/ˈtɹiːhələʊz/noun

trehalose is spelled T-R-E-H-A-L-O-S-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trehalose means “A disaccharide formed from two glucose units; it is an isomer of maltose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trehalose is trehaloses.

How many letters and syllables are in trehalose?

Letters9: T-R-E-H-A-L-O-S-E
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is trehalose?

Trehalose appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th 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 trehalose?

  • /ˈtɹiːhələʊz/
  • /ˈtɹiːələʊz/

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

Forms of trehalose

  • trehaloses plural

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

What does trehalose mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A disaccharide formed from two glucose units; it is an isomer of maltose.

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

Trehalose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense disaccharide formed from two glucose units:

LanguageWords
Frenchtréhalose
Portuguesetrealose
Spanishtrehalosa

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 trehalose come from?

From trehala + -ose.

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

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