mélanésien
French, adjective
mélanésien is spelled M-É-L-A-N-É-S-I-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mélanésien is a French adjective meaning “Melanesian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mélanésien is a different word: “Melanesian”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à la Mélanésie”.
What does mélanésien mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Melanesian
noun
- 1
masculineMelanesian
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à la Mélanésie.
noun: 1. Ensemble de langues parlées en Mélanésie et rattaché au groupe malayo-polynésien.
noun: 1. Habitant ou natif de la Mélanésie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mélanésien
- mélanésienne feminine
- mélanésiens masculine plural
- mélanésiennes feminine plural
- Mélanésiens plural
- Mélanésienne feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mélanésien
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mélanésien in French?
mélanésien appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).