pheomelanin
noun
pheomelanin is a noun meaning “A brown pigment produced by melanocytes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-E-O-M-E-L-A-N-I-N, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pheomelanin is pheomelanins.
What does pheomelanin mean?
noun
- 1
A brown pigment produced by melanocytes
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pheomelanin
- pheomelanins plural
- phaeomelanin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pheomelanin?
Pheomelanin appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).
Where does pheomelanin come from?
From pheo- + melanin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).