melodious

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for melodious is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /məˈləʊdi.əs/. Corpus data places it at rank #48,350 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for melodious, with forms such as "emlodious", "meldoious", and "mellodious". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English melodious, from Middle French melodieus, melodieux. By surface analysis, melod(i) + -ous. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is melodious, spelled M-E-L-O-D-I-O-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.