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solanine

noun

solanine is spelled S-O-L-A-N-I-N-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, solanine means “A poisonous glycoalkaloid found in many species of the nightshade family Solanaceae, including potato and tomato” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of solanine is solanines.

How many letters and syllables are in solanine?

Letters8: S-O-L-A-N-I-N-E
In writingabout once in every 43 million words; the 201,693rd 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 solanine?

Solanine appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd 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 solanine

  • solanines plural

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

What does solanine mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A poisonous glycoalkaloid found in many species of the nightshade family Solanaceae, including potato and tomato.

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

Solanine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense poisonous glycoalkaloid found in many species of nightshade:

LanguageWords
Frenchsolanine
GermanSolanin

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 solanine come from?

From translingual Solanum + -ine.

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

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