melt

[melt]

/[melt]/ verb

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The verdict

“melt” is uncommon German (frequency #90,621 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,621
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - schmelzen

Corpus desk

Index DE-melt · melt · German

melt · rank #90,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,621
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH meistbietenden

Nearest frequency peer: meistbietenden (-1 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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „melt“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „melt“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for melt
PropertyValue
Headwordmelt
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[melt]
Letters4
Frequency rank#90,621
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „melt“ im Deutschen

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.meltfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „meistbietenden“ (#90,620), „Menschenwelt“ (#90,622), „mehrfachem“ (#90,619). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „melt“ bei #90,621. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

melt is uncommon German at frequency #90,621 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [melt]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "schmelzen".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for melt, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is melt, spelled M-E-L-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    schmelzen

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how melt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The ice is melting away.

Antonyms

freeze

This word in other languages

fondre(Français)

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "melt"?
"melt" is spelled M-E-L-T. The IPA pronunciation is [melt].
What does "melt" mean?
As a verb, "melt" means: schmelzen
How do you pronounce "melt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "melt" is [melt]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "melt" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "melt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

maur#90,613mica#90,629Mief#90,631lieu#90,577

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list