melanina
/mɨ.lɐ.ˈni.nɐ/
The verdict
“melanina” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #32,258. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,258
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - pigmento na forma de proteína, responsável pela cor dos fios de cabelo, da pele, das unhas e cerdas de pelos
Corpus desk
Index PT-melanina · melanina · Portuguese
melanina · rank #32,258 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,258
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH materialismo
Nearest frequency peer: materialismo (-2 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “melanina”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- married
married
67,748 corpus weight
- matagal
matagal
67,747 corpus weight
- matarem
matarem
67,746 corpus weight
- materialismo
materialismo
67,745 corpus weight
- melanina
melanina
67,743 corpus weight
- minuta
minuta
67,736 corpus weight
What this shows “melanina” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melanina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɨ.lɐ.ˈni.nɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,258 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “melanina”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around melanina (IPA /mɨ.lɐ.ˈni.nɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,258 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "pigmento na forma de proteína, responsável pela cor dos fios de cabelo, da pele, das unhas e cerdas de pelos".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for melanina, with forms such as "emlanina", "mealnina", and "melainna". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "menina", "melanoma", "mecânica", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is melanina, spelled M-E-L-A-N-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1pigmento na forma de proteína, responsável pela cor dos fios de cabelo, da pele, das unhas e cerdas de pelos
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how melanina appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A pele negra tem mais melanina (pigmento que faz as vezes de filtro solar) e colágeno (camada de sustentação da pele).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlanina
- mealnina
- melainna
- melanian
- melaninna
- melannia
- melannina
- mellanina
- melnaina
- mleanina
- mmelanina
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of melanina - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).