Mélanchon
\me.lɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“Mélanchon” is uncommon French (frequency #56,770 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,770
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melanchon · Mélanchon · French
Mélanchon · rank #56,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,770
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH médisance
Nearest frequency peer: médisance (-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 « Mélanchon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- multijoueurs
multijoueurs
43,234 corpus weight
- Murano
Murano
43,233 corpus weight
- médisance
médisance
43,232 corpus weight
- Mélanchon
Mélanchon
43,231 corpus weight
- ménisque
ménisque
43,230 corpus weight
- méthadone
méthadone
43,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mélanchon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mélanchon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.lɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mélanchon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mélanchon is uncommon French at frequency #56,770 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \me.lɑ̃.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Mélanchon, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mélanchon, spelled M-É-L-A-N-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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