Melançon
\mə.lɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“Melançon” is uncommon French (frequency #84,065 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,065
- 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-melancon · Melançon · French
Melançon · rank #84,065 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,065
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mek
Nearest frequency peer: mek (-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 « Melançon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mek
mek
15,937 corpus weight
- Melançon
Melançon
15,936 corpus weight
- menottés
menottés
15,935 corpus weight
- merina
merina
15,934 corpus weight
- messaline
messaline
15,933 corpus weight
- messires
messires
15,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Melançon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melançon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mə.lɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Melançon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Melançon is uncommon French at frequency #84,065 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mə.lɑ̃.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Melançon, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Melançon, spelled M-E-L-A-N-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Melançon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j’ai lancé l’idée sur Twitter dimanche en la signalant au professeur de littérature Benoît Melançon, expert des mots, il a eu ce trait d’humour : « Imagine le titre : “2021, un excès de pénurie” ».
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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