lutein
noun
lutein is a noun meaning “A yellow carotenoid pigment, widely distributed in both plants and animals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-T-E-I-N, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lutein is luteins.
What does lutein mean?
noun
- 1
A yellow carotenoid pigment, widely distributed in both plants and animals.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lutein
- luteins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lutein?
Lutein appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lutein in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense yellow carotenoid pigment:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lutein come from?
From Latin luteus (“yellow”) + English -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).