Melanin
Letters
7 characters
Language
German
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Melanin is aGermannoun. It means: weit verbreitete dunkelbraune bis schwarze oder gelbliche bis rötliche Pigmente Pronounced [melaˈniːn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melanin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [melaˈniːn] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Melanin is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [melaˈniːn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "weit verbreitete dunkelbraune bis schwarze oder gelbliche bis rötliche Pigmente".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Melanin in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Melanin, spelled M-E-L-A-N-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1weit verbreitete dunkelbraune bis schwarze oder gelbliche bis rötliche Pigmente
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