mel
\mɛl\
The verdict
“mel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,425) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,425
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de hauteur tonale (ou tonie), en acoustique. Par définition, un son d’une fréquence de 1 kilohertz et d’une intensité de 40 décibels au-dessus du seuil d’audition a une hauteur de 1...
Corpus desk
Index FR-mel · mel · French
mel · rank #13,425 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,425
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mangez
Nearest frequency peer: mangez (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mel »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- lèvre
lèvre
86,578 corpus weight
- mangez
mangez
86,577 corpus weight
- mel
mel
86,576 corpus weight
- mentor
mentor
86,575 corpus weight
- mineures
mineures
86,574 corpus weight
- ministériel
ministériel
86,573 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mel » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mel »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mel is neighbouring look-alikes ("mm", "mi", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mɛl\. Frequency #13,425 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de hauteur tonale (ou tonie), en acoustique. Par définition, un son d’une fréquence de 1 kilohertz et d’une intensité de 40 décibels au-dessus du seuil d’audition a une hauteur de 1...".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mel, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mm", "mi", "MR", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mel, spelled M-E-L.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de hauteur tonale (ou tonie), en acoustique. Par définition, un son d’une fréquence de 1 kilohertz et d’une intensité de 40 décibels au-dessus du seuil d’audition a une hauteur de 1000 mels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La tonie, et son unité le Mel, sont liées à la différenciation grave-aigu.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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