adenina
Spanish, noun/adeˈnina/
adenina is spelled A-D-E-N-I-N-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 129,473rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adenina is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “adenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Una de las cinco bases nitrogenadas que forman parte de los ácidos nucleicos. Se representa con la letra A”.
What does adenina mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineadenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Una de las cinco bases nitrogenadas que forman parte de los ácidos nucleicos. Se representa con la letra A.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adenina
- adeninas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adenina?
- /adeˈnina/
- [a.ð̞eˈni.na]
- [að̞eˈnina]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adenina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adenina in Spanish?
adenina appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).