mêlaient
\mɛ.lɛ\
The verdict
“mêlaient” is uncommon French (frequency #71,731 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,731
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mêler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melaient · mêlaient · French
mêlaient · rank #71,731 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,731
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mémoriel
Nearest frequency peer: mémoriel (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mêlaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mélisse
mélisse
28,273 corpus weight
- mélodieuse
mélodieuse
28,272 corpus weight
- mémoriel
mémoriel
28,271 corpus weight
- mêlaient
mêlaient
28,270 corpus weight
- napo
napo
28,269 corpus weight
- nauséeux
nauséeux
28,268 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mêlaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mêlaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛ.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,731 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mêlaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mêlaient is uncommon French at frequency #71,731 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛ.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mêler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mêlaient in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 mêlaient, spelled M-Ê-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de mêler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mêlaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La basse-cour, les écuries, l’étable reportées dans les bâtiments de la faisanderie et cachées par des massifs, au lieu d’attrister le regard par leurs inconvénients, mêlaient au continuel bruissement particulier aux forêts ces murmures, ces roucoulements, ces battements d’ailes, l’un des plus délicieux accompagnements de la continuelle mélodie que chante…
Enfin, comme à dessein de le rendre plus complexe, des odeurs de caroube, de denrées coloniales, de goudron, d’air marin arrivaient puissamment du port et se mêlaient à celles qui montaient des pavés et des caves.
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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