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melo

noun

melo is spelled M-E-L-O: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, melo means “Abbreviation of melodrama” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of melo is melos.

How many letters and syllables are in melo?

Letters4: M-E-L-O
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is melo?

Melo appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 melo?

    Melo 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).

    Words people confuse with melo

    Also written: melodrama.

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    What rhymes with melo?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as melo.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: mole, elmo, moel.

    Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

    Forms of melo

    • melos plural

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

    What does melo mean?

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

    noun

    1. 1

      UKinformalAbbreviation of melodrama.

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

    Where does melo come from?

    Perhaps after French mélo.

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

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