# melee vs meme

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### melee
*noun · IPA /ˈmɛˌleɪ/ · frequency rank #21,859*
A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.

### meme
*noun · IPA /miːm/ · frequency rank #8,170*
Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/melee-vs-meme