mélange
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,486
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
mélange is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de mélanger ou résultat de cette action. Pronounced \me.lɑ̃ʒ\. It ranks #2,486 in French word frequency. Often confused with ménage and mêlant.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélange |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.lɑ̃ʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mélange is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.lɑ̃ʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,486 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for mélange, with forms such as "melange", "mléange", and "mmélange". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "ménage", "mêlant", "Mélanie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mélange, spelled M-É-L-A-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de mélanger ou résultat de cette action.
- 2Personnes réunies confusément.
- 3Union de qualités de conditions, d’affaires différentes.
- 4Titre de certains recueils composés de pièces de prose ou de poésie, de petits ouvrages sur différents sujets.
- 5Titre qu’on donne quelquefois, dans les publications périodiques, à une réunion d’articles sur des objets variés. Il se dit aussi d’un ouvrage composé de plusieurs articles réunis en volume et écrits par les amis et les disciples d’un maître à l’occasion d’un anniversaire, d’un cinquantenaire, etc. On donne ce même titre, dans les catalogues de livres, à la partie qui comprend les ouvrages qu’on n’a pu classer dans les autres divisions.
- 6Ensemble de substances de natures différentes (contraire de corps pur).
- 7Carburant constitué d’essence et d’huile utilisée dans les anciennes mobylettes.
- 8Épice/drogue fabuleuse dans le livre de science-fiction Dune de Frank Herbert qui augmente notamment l’espérance de vie en bonne santé, donne du goût aux aliments et améliore la conscience.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: melange,mléange,mmélange,méalnge,mélagne,mélaneg,mélangge,mélannge,méllange,mélnage,émlange
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Misspelling Variants of "mélange"
Frequency rank: #2,486 in French
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