melatonina
[melat̪oˈnina]
The verdict
“melatonina” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #68,739 among 36,142 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,739
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 36,142
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Hormona relacionada con la serotonina que es secretada por la glándula pineal y estimula el cambio de color en la piel de los reptiles, y que también está involucrada en los ciclos de sueño en los ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melatonina |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [melat̪oˈnina] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “melatonina” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
melatonina is uncommon Spanish at frequency #68,739 among 36,142 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [melat̪oˈnina]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hormona relacionada con la serotonina que es secretada por la glándula pineal y estimula el cambio de color en la piel de los reptiles, y que también está involucrada en los ciclos de sueño en los ...".
melatonina doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is melatonina, spelled M-E-L-A-T-O-N-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Hormona relacionada con la serotonina que es secretada por la glándula pineal y estimula el cambio de color en la piel de los reptiles, y que también está involucrada en los ciclos de sueño en los mamíferos.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “melatonina”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-L-A-T-O-N-I-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [melat̪oˈnina] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.