pilin
noun
pilin is a noun meaning “Any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in bacteria” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-L-I-N, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pilin is pilins.
What does pilin mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in bacteria
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pilin
- pilins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pilin?
Pilin appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th 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).
Pilin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any of a class of fibrous proteins found in pilus structures in bacteria:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | piline |
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 pilin come from?
From pilus + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).