xylulose
noun
xylulose is a noun meaning “The ketopentose (3R,4S)-1,3,4,5-tetrahydroxypentan-2-one” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled X-Y-L-U-L-O-S-E, and it appears about once in every 98 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of xylulose is xyluloses.
What does xylulose mean?
noun
- 1
The ketopentose (3R,4S)-1,3,4,5-tetrahydroxypentan-2-one.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce xylulose?
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-xylulose.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of xylulose
- xyluloses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is xylulose?
Xylulose appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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).
Xylulose in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ketopentose:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | xilulosa |
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 xylulose come from?
From xyl- + -ulose, from levulose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).