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guanine

French, noun/ɡwa.nin/

guanine is spelled G-U-A-N-I-N-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guanine is a French feminine noun meaning “guanine” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Substance extraite du guano”.

What does guanine mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineguanine

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Substance extraite du guano. 2. Base azotée qu’on trouve dans l’ADN et l’ARN, constituée d'un squelette de purine avec un groupement amine et un groupement cétone.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of guanine

  • guanines plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce guanine?

  • /ɡwa.nin/
  • \ɡwa.nin\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to guanine

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is guanine in French?

guanine appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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