mélange
"melange" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mélange” is uncommon English (frequency #96,263 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,263
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of melange.
Corpus desk
Index EN-melange · mélange · English
mélange · rank #96,263 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,263
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Nakata
Nearest frequency peer: Nakata (+5 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “mélange”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- motorman
motorman
3,747 corpus weight
- multispectr…
multispectral
3,744 corpus weight
- mélange
mélange
3,738 corpus weight
- Nakata
Nakata
3,733 corpus weight
- nannie
nannie
3,732 corpus weight
- naturism
naturism
3,728 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mélange” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélange |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,263 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mélange” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mélange is uncommon English at frequency #96,263 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of melange.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mélange, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is mélange, spelled M-É-L-A-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of melange.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mélange appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mélange.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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