Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

rna

/ɑː(ɹ)ɛn eɪ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: rna
IPA: /ɑː(ɹ)ɛn eɪ/

3

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

3

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of ribonucleic acid.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Looked at from RNA’s point of view, DNA is just a passive archive of information, a dull hunk of a telephone directory; it is RNA that looks up the numbers, establishes the connections and determines how long each call will last."

Usage

Inflected Forms

RNAs (plural)

Derived Forms

aiRNA asRNA bacRNA birnavirus cfRNA chiRNA ctRNA dsRNA gRNA lhRNA lRNA macroRNA

Phrases

A-RNA messenger RNA ribosomal RNA RNA expression profile RNA interference small interfering RNA transfer RNA Z-RNA

Frequently Paired Words

DNA GNA PNA TNA XNA

Synonyms

ribonucleic acid

Rhymes With

they way may day say one-way away play today pay stay re

Questions

How do you pronounce rna?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɑː(ɹ)ɛn eɪ/.
What does rna mean?: Initialism of ribonucleic acid.

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