Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pyknon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: py-knon
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The lower part of a tetrachord in Ancient Greek music, consisting of a composite interval (two successive intervals) that is less than the remaining (incomposite) interval.

noun

Condensation, density.

noun

A nonrandom pattern of repeated elements, which are found more frequently in the 3′ untranslated regions of genes than in other regions of the human genome. Although it is unclear how pyknons might have arisen, it is possible that they may be involved in a new form of gene regulation.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πυκνόν (puknón), form of Ancient Greek πυκνός (puknós, “dense, compressed”).

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: πυκνόν, πυκνός

Inflected Forms

pyknons (plural) pykna (plural) pycnon (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

pyknic chromatic diatonic enharmonic genus

Questions

What does pyknon mean?: The lower part of a tetrachord in Ancient Greek music, consisting of a composite interval (two successive intervals) that is less than the remaining (incomposite) interval.
Where does pyknon come from?: It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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