Melpomene

/[mɛlˈpoːmene]/ name

Letters

9 characters

Language

German

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Melpomene is aGermanname. It means: Tochter des Zeus und der Mnemosyne; eine der neun Musen, die als Göttinnen der Künste und Wissenschaften agieren; Muse der Tragödie. Pronounced [mɛlˈpoːmene].

Key facts for Melpomene
PropertyValue
HeadwordMelpomene
LanguageGerman
Part of speechName
IPA[mɛlˈpoːmene]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Melpomene is not present in the top-100,000 ranked German corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Melpomene is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [mɛlˈpoːmene]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tochter des Zeus und der Mnemosyne; eine der neun Musen, die als Göttinnen der Künste und Wissenschaften agieren; Muse der Tragödie.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Melpomene in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German 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 German form is Melpomene, spelled M-E-L-P-O-M-E-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tochter des Zeus und der Mnemosyne; eine der neun Musen, die als Göttinnen der Künste und Wissenschaften agieren; Muse der Tragödie.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Melpomene"?
"Melpomene" is spelled M-E-L-P-O-M-E-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [mɛlˈpoːmene].
What does "Melpomene" mean?
As a name, "Melpomene" means: Tochter des Zeus und der Mnemosyne; eine der neun Musen, die als Göttinnen der Künste und Wissenschaften agieren; Muse der Tragödie.
How do you pronounce "Melpomene"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Melpomene" is [mɛlˈpoːmene]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Melpomene" come from?
"Melpomene" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.