melange
/məˈlɑnʒ/noun
melange is spelled M-E-L-A-N-G-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, melange means “A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of melange is mélanges or melanges.
How many letters and syllables are in melange?
| Letters | 7: M-E-L-A-N-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 68,248th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 melange?
Melange appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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 melange?
- /məˈlɑnʒ/
- /meɪ-/
- /-ˈlɑndʒ/
Melange has 2 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). Recordings: En-us-melange.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of melange
- mélanges plural
- melanges plural
- mélange
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does melange mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
The room was a melange of comic books and posters.
- 2
A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
- 3
A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.
noun
- 1
Alternative form of melange.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:mélange.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Melange in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Melange |
| Spanish | mezcolanza |
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 melange come from?
From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, from Latin misceō (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).