valine
/ˈveɪliːn/noun
valine is a noun meaning “An essential amino acid 2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid found in most animal proteins” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-L-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 9 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of valine is valines.
What does valine mean?
noun
- 1
An essential amino acid 2-amino-3-methylbutanoic acid found in most animal proteins.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce valine?
- /ˈveɪliːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-valine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of valine
- valines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is valine?
Valine appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th 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).
Valine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense essential amino acid C5H11NO2:
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 valine come from?
From valerian + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).