melittin
/məˈlɪt.ən/noun
melittin is spelled M-E-L-I-T-T-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is mellitin: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Melittin is a noun meaning “A peptide, containing 26 amino acids, which is present in bee venom and has been used experimentally as an…”. The plural of melittin is melittins.
How many letters and syllables are in melittin?
| Letters | 8: M-E-L-I-T-T-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 83 million words; the 290,185th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, mellitin, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell melittin?
Melittin is spelled M-E-L-I-T-T-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for melittin in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is melittin?
Melittin appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
How do you pronounce melittin?
- UK /mɛˈlɪt.ɪn/
- US /məˈlɪt.ən/
Melittin has 3 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with melittin?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as melittin from its last stressed vowel (/ɪtən/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of melittin
- melittins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does melittin mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A peptide, containing 26 amino acids, which is present in bee venom and has been used experimentally as an antibacterial agent, especially against penicillin-resistant bacteria.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does melittin come from?
Borrowed from German Melittin, from Attic Greek μέλιττα (mélitta, “bee”) + -in, from German -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).