sanger

Other forms of sanger

plural

sangers·

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 sanger

What does sanger mean?

sanger means "English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sanger?

sanger has 2 syllables: san-ger. The stress falls on "san". In IPA it is /ˈsæŋɚ/.

What is another word for sanger?

Close synonyms include Frederick Sanger, Fred Sanger, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Higgins Sanger. 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 sanger a common word?

sanger is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.