Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phosphoglucoseisomerase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: phos-pho-glu-co-sei-so-merase
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

23

Letters

7

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase, an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of glucose-6-phosphate into fructose 6-phosphate in the second step of glycolysis.

Etymology

From phospho- + glucose + isomerase.

Inflected Forms

phosphoglucoseisomerases (plural) phosphoglucose isomerase (alternative)

Questions

What does phosphoglucoseisomerase mean?: Glucose-6-phosphate isomerase, an enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of glucose-6-phosphate into fructose 6-phosphate in the second step of glycolysis.
Where does phosphoglucoseisomerase come from?: From phospho- + glucose + isomerase.

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