tropomyosin
/ˌtɹɑp.əˈmaɪ.əs.ɪn/noun
tropomyosin is spelled T-R-O-P-O-M-Y-O-S-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is topomyosin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Tropomyosin is a noun meaning “A protein involved in muscle contraction and related to myosin, and occurs together with troponin in the thin…”. The plural of tropomyosin is tropomyosins.
How many letters and syllables are in tropomyosin?
| Letters | 11: T-R-O-P-O-M-Y-O-S-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 31 million words; the 169,822nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, topomyosin, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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).
How do you spell tropomyosin?
Tropomyosin is spelled T-R-O-P-O-M-Y-O-S-I-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for tropomyosin 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.
How common is tropomyosin?
Tropomyosin appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd 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 tropomyosin?
- UK /ˌtɹəʊ.pəʊˈmʌɪ.əs.ɪn/
- UK /ˌtɹəʊ.pəˈmʌɪ.əs.ɪn/
- US /ˌtɹɑp.əˈmaɪ.əs.ɪn/
Tropomyosin has 5 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tropomyosin
- tropomyosins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tropomyosin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A protein involved in muscle contraction and related to myosin, and occurs together with troponin in the thin filaments of muscle tissue.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tropomyosin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense biochemistry: protein involved in muscle contraction:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tropomyosine |
| German | Tropomyosin |
| Portuguese | tropomiosina |
| Spanish | tropomiosina |
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 tropomyosin come from?
From Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn”, noun) + myosin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).