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Melanesian

adjective, noun

Melanesian is spelled M-E-L-A-N-E-S-I-A-N: 10 letters and 4 syllables. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, Melanesian means “Of or relating to Melanesia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in Melanesian?

Letters10: M-E-L-A-N-E-S-I-A-N
Syllables4 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 70,702nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Melanesian?

Melanesian appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce Melanesian?

    Melanesian has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of Melanesian

    • Melanesians plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does Melanesian mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    adjective

    1. 1

      Of or relating to Melanesia.

    noun

    1. 1

      A Melanesian person.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Melanesian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

    LanguageWords
    Frenchmélanésien (referring to Melanesia), Mélanésien, Mélanésienne (person living in or coming from Melanesia)
    Portuguesemelanésio (referring to Melanesia)
    Spanishmelanesio (referring to Melanesia)
    GermanMelanesier, Melanesierin (person living in or coming from Melanesia)

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

    Where does Melanesian come from?

    From Melanesia + -an.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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