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phosphodeficient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
phos-pho-d-e-fi-cient
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having fewer than normal phosphorylation sites

Example Sentences

Etymology

From phospho- + deficient.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more phosphodeficient (comparative) most phosphodeficient (superlative)

Rhymes With

efficient cost-efficient sufficient self-sufficient insufficient inefficient coefficient deficient proficient omniscient immunodeficient haploinsufficient

Questions

What does phosphodeficient mean?
Having fewer than normal phosphorylation sites
Where does phosphodeficient come from?
From phospho- + deficient.

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