ALLELES

"ALLELES" is a plural of: allele.

Date "ALLELES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references)

Domain	Definition
Health	Mutually exclusive forms of the same gene, occupying the same locus on homologous chromosomes, and governing the same biochemical and developmental process. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Each person receives two alleles, one from each parent. (references)
		Many genes come in a number of variant forms, known as alleles. (references)
		The more APOE e4 alleles inherited, the lower the age of onset. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"ALLELES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.67% of the time. "ALLELES" is used about 75 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	98.67%	74	38,813
Noun (proper)	1.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	75	N/A

Expression using "ALLELES": multiple alleles. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "ALLELES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		allelserie (allelic series, series of alleles), multiple alleler (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs). (various references)

Dutch		allelfrequentie (allelic series, series of alleles), multiple allelen (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs), multipele allelen (multiple alleles). (various references)

Finnish		alleelisarja (allelic series, series of alleles), multippelit alleelit (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs). (various references)

French		allélomorphes multiples (multiple alleles), allèles multiples (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs), série d'allèles (allelic series, series of alleles), série allélique (allelic series, series of alleles). (various references)

German		Serie multipler Allele (allelic series, series of alleles), multiple Allele (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs), Mehrfachallel (multiple alleles), einander komplementierende Allele (complementing alleles). (various references)

Greek		σειρά αλληλίων (allelic series, series of alleles), πολλαπλά αλληλόμορφα (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs), αλληλόμορφα,πολλαπλά (multiple alleles), αλληλική σειρά (allelic series, series of alleles). (various references)

Italian		alleli multipli (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs), serie di alleli (allelic series, series of alleles), serie allelica (allelic series, series of alleles). (various references)

Pig Latin		allelesay

Portuguese		alelos múltiplos (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs), alelomorfos múltiplos (multiple alleles). (various references)

Spanish		alelos múltiples (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs), serie de alelos (allelic series, series of alleles). (various references)

Swedish		multipla alleler (multiple alleles, multiple allelomorphs). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "ALLELES": pseudoalleles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"ALLELES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: albellus, Alella, Aleves, allael, Allaleh, allates, allel, allelle, allelles, allelo, allepeen, allerley, alllll, aslleles, Malkele. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "ALLELES" (pronounced ule"lēz)
4	-e" l ē z	bellies, jellies.
3	-l ē z	alleys, anomalies, assemblies, Baileys, bullies, chilies, chilis, chillies, Collies, dailies, doilies, facsimiles, families, fillies, follies, galleys, Gillies, grizzlies, gullies, Hillbillies, hollies, homilies, jollies, lilies, monopolies, pulleys, rallies, sallies, subassemblies, subfamilies, tallies, tamales, trolleys, valleys, volleys, weeklies.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-l-l-s"
	-1 letter: allees, allele.
	-2 letters: allee, easel, lalls, lease, selle.
	-3 letters: alee, ales, alls, ease, eels, ells, else, lall, lase, leal, leas, lees, sale, sall, seal, seel, sell.
	-4 letters: ale, all, als, eel, ell, els, las, lea, lee, sae, sal, sea, see, sel.
	-5 letters: ae, al, as, el, es, la.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-l-l-s"
	+1 letter: sellable.
	+2 letters: cellulase, heelballs, labellers, telltales.
	+3 letters: cellulases, klebsiella, skeletally, sleazeball, unsellable.
	+4 letters: blamelessly, celestially, fallaleries, flagellates, illegalizes, klebsiellas, lavallieres, mislabelled, placelessly, salmonellae, selaginella, sleazeballs, villanelles.
	+5 letters: collectables, decasyllable, illegalities, pseudoallele, selaginellas, tagliatelles.
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ALLELES

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