eau de mélisse
The verdict
“eau de mélisse” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Eau distillée ou hydrolat préparée à partir des feuilles de la mélisse officinale.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | eau de mélisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “eau de mélisse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for eau de mélisse is 14 letters long, classified as a noun. 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: "Eau distillée ou hydrolat préparée à partir des feuilles de la mélisse officinale.".
No misspelling variants are generated for eau de mélisse 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 eau de mélisse, spelled E-A-U- -D-E- -M-É-L-I-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Eau distillée ou hydrolat préparée à partir des feuilles de la mélisse officinale.
Synonyms
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Using “eau de mélisse”
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- The one correct French spelling is E-A-U- -D-E- -M-É-L-I-S-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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