mélange
[me.lɑ̃ʒ]
The verdict
“mélange” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vermischung, Mischen
Corpus desk
Index DE-melange · mélange · German
mélange · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélange |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [me.lɑ̃ʒ] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „mélange“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
mélange is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [me.lɑ̃ʒ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for mélange in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is mélange, spelled M-É-L-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Vermischung, Mischen
- 2Mischung
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.