death metal mélodique

\dɛs me.tal me.lo.dik\

/\dɛs me.tal me.lo.dik\/ noun

The verdict

“death metal mélodique” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
21
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sous-genre de death metal ayant émergé en Suède au début des années 1990.

Key facts for death metal mélodique
PropertyValue
Headworddeath metal mélodique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\dɛs me.tal me.lo.dik\
Letters21
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “death metal mélodique” sits in French frequency

death metal mélodique falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for death metal mélodique is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɛs me.tal me.lo.dik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sous-genre de death metal ayant émergé en Suède au début des années 1990.".

No misspelling variants are generated for death metal mélodique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is death metal mélodique, spelled D-E-A-T-H- -M-E-T-A-L- -M-É-L-O-D-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sous-genre de death metal ayant émergé en Suède au début des années 1990.

Synonyms

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "death metal mélodique"?
"death metal mélodique" is spelled D-E-A-T-H- -M-E-T-A-L- -M-É-L-O-D-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \dɛs me.tal me.lo.dik\.
What does "death metal mélodique" mean?
As a noun, "death metal mélodique" means: Sous-genre de death metal ayant émergé en Suède au début des années 1990.
How do you pronounce "death metal mélodique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "death metal mélodique" is \dɛs me.tal me.lo.dik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “death metal mélodique”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is D-E-A-T-H- -M-E-T-A-L- -M-É-L-O-D-I-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \dɛs me.tal me.lo.dik\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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