Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

miscleavage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mis-cle-av-age
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Faulty cleavage (of a protein etc)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English cleavage English miscleavage From mis- + cleavage.

Inflected Forms

Questions

What does miscleavage mean?
Faulty cleavage (of a protein etc)
Where does miscleavage come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- English cleavage English miscleavage From mis- + cleavage.

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