melanina
Spanish, noun/melaˈnina/
melanina is spelled M-E-L-A-N-I-N-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 57,592nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Melanina is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “melanin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Cualquiera de los pigmentos insolubles, que se encuentran en todas las formas de vida animal, producen el…”.
What does melanina mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemelanin
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cualquiera de los pigmentos insolubles, que se encuentran en todas las formas de vida animal, producen el color oscuro de la piel, cabello, pelo, plumas, escamas, etc.
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 melanina
- melaninas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce melanina?
- /melaˈnina/
- [me.laˈni.na]
- [melaˈnina]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to melanina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is melanina in Spanish?
melanina 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).