demi de mêlée
The verdict
“demi de mêlée” 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
- 13
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Poste de rugby, consistant à introduire le ballon dans les mêlées organisées et à le récupérer dans les regroupements, et qui, en complémentarité avec le demi d’ouverture, sert de charnière entre l...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demi de mêlée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.mi də mɛ.le\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “demi de mêlée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for demi de mêlée is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.mi də mɛ.le\. 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: "Poste de rugby, consistant à introduire le ballon dans les mêlées organisées et à le récupérer dans les regroupements, et qui, en complémentarité avec le demi d’ouverture, sert de charnière entre l...".
No misspelling variants are generated for demi de mêlée 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 demi de mêlée, spelled D-E-M-I- -D-E- -M-Ê-L-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poste de rugby, consistant à introduire le ballon dans les mêlées organisées et à le récupérer dans les regroupements, et qui, en complémentarité avec le demi d’ouverture, sert de charnière entre les avants et les arrières.
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Using “demi de mêlée”
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- The one correct French spelling is D-E-M-I- -D-E- -M-Ê-L-É-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \də.mi də mɛ.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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