aminoácido
Spanish, noun/aminoˈaθido/
aminoácido is spelled A-M-I-N-O-Á-C-I-D-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 54,740th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aminoácido is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “amino acid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Monómero componente esencial de las proteínas, de los que existe un número limitado en la naturaleza”.
What does aminoácido mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineamino acid
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Monómero componente esencial de las proteínas, de los que existe un número limitado en la naturaleza.
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 aminoácido
- aminoácidos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aminoácido?
- /aminoˈaθido/
- [a.mi.noˈa.θi.ð̞o]
- /aminoˈasido/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aminoácido in Spanish?
aminoácido appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).