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maltin

noun

maltin is spelled M-A-L-T-I-N: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, maltin means “The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in maltin?

Letters6: M-A-L-T-I-N
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is maltin?

Maltin appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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).

Forms of maltin

  • maltine

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does maltin mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase.

  2. 2

    Any of various medicinal preparations made from, or containing, malt.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does maltin come from?

From malt + -in.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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