organelle

1. 1.

   a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ

   “the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus”

   Synonymscell organellecell organ

   Broaderorgan

   Narrowerciliumlysosomenucleusnucleolusmitochondrioncentrioleribosome

   Part ofcell

Other forms of organelle

plural

organelles·

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 organelle

What does organelle mean?

organelle means "a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ".

How many syllables are in organelle?

organelle has 4 syllables: or-ga-ne-lle. The stress falls on "ga".

What is another word for organelle?

Close synonyms include cell organelle, cell organ. 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 organelle a common word?

organelle 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.