lépidomélane
\le.pi.dɔ.me.lan\
The verdict
“lépidomélane” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de biotite, terme générique des micas noirs riches en fer, décrit initialement à Presberg en Wermeland (Värmland, Suède ; ne pas confondre avec Presberg en Allemagne).
Corpus desk
Index FR-lepidomelane · lépidomélane · French
lépidomélane · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lépidomélane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \le.pi.dɔ.me.lan\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
lépidomélane is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \le.pi.dɔ.me.lan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de biotite, terme générique des micas noirs riches en fer, décrit initialement à Presberg en Wermeland (Värmland, Suède ; ne pas confondre avec Presberg en Allemagne).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lépidomélane, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is lépidomélane, spelled L-É-P-I-D-O-M-É-L-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de biotite, terme générique des micas noirs riches en fer, décrit initialement à Presberg en Wermeland (Värmland, Suède ; ne pas confondre avec Presberg en Allemagne).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how lépidomélane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Examinée au microscope on voit que cette roche possède une structure hypidiomorphique et contient les minéraux suivants : albite, microline, microperthite, néphéline, lépidomélane, magnétite et calcite.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.