melanina
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,926
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
melanina is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced [melaˈnina].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melanina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [melaˈnina] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for melanina is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [melaˈnina]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,926 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.".
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for melanina in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is melanina, spelled M-E-L-A-N-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cualquiera 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.
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Frequency rank: #57,926 in Spanish
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