mélanine
French, noun\me.la.nin\
mélanine is spelled M-É-L-A-N-I-N-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 52,567th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mélanine is a French feminine noun meaning “melanin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pigment noir de la peau des animaux et des hommes”.
What does mélanine mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemelanin
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pigment noir de la peau des animaux et des hommes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mélanine
- mélanines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mélanine?
- \me.la.nin\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mélanine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mélanine in French?
mélanine appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).