Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pentanucleotide

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pen-tanu-cleotide
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A codon containing five nucleotides.

Example Sentences

"Additional diversity was recovered within the rbc spacer, where variations in the repeat number of a pentanucleotide microsatellite distinguished the haplotypes B1, B2 and B5 (Fig 3b )."

Etymology

From penta- + nucleotide.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: penta

Inflected Forms

pentanucleotides (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

pentanucleotidic

Questions

What does pentanucleotide mean?: A codon containing five nucleotides.
Where does pentanucleotide come from?: From penta- + nucleotide.

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