myofibril

Other forms of myofibril

plural

myofibrils·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about myofibril

What does myofibril mean?

myofibril means "one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber".

How many syllables are in myofibril?

myofibril has 3 syllables and divides as myo-fi-bril under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for myofibril?

Close synonyms include myofibrilla, sarcostyle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is myofibril a common word?

myofibril is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.