mélamine
\me.la.min\
The verdict
“mélamine” is uncommon French (frequency #88,914 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,914
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Base salifiable produite par le mélam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melamine · mélamine · French
mélamine · rank #88,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,914
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mégas
Nearest frequency peer: mégas (-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 « mélamine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- munit
munit
11,090 corpus weight
- mush
mush
11,089 corpus weight
- mégas
mégas
11,088 corpus weight
- mélamine
mélamine
11,087 corpus weight
- Méphisto
Méphisto
11,086 corpus weight
- méritante
méritante
11,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélamine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélamine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.la.min\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélamine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélamine is uncommon French at frequency #88,914 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.la.min\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mélamine, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mélamine, spelled M-É-L-A-M-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Base salifiable produite par le mélam.
- 2Mélamine-formaldéhyde.
Synonyms
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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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