mélanger
\me.lɑ̃.ʒe\
The verdict
“mélanger” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,202. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,202
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unir une chose avec une autre, ou plusieurs choses ensemble, de façon qu’elles forment comme un tout.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melanger · mélanger · French
mélanger · rank #9,202 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,202
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH muscle
Nearest frequency peer: muscle (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “mélanger”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mons
Mons
90,802 corpus weight
- Murray
Murray
90,801 corpus weight
- muscle
muscle
90,800 corpus weight
- mélanger
mélanger
90,799 corpus weight
- mêler
mêler
90,798 corpus weight
- noyer
noyer
90,797 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “mélanger” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélanger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \me.lɑ̃.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “mélanger” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around mélanger (IPA \me.lɑ̃.ʒe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,202 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for mélanger, with forms such as "melanger", "mléanger", and "mmélanger". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Mélanie", "ménager", "mélanges", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mélanger, spelled M-É-L-A-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Unir une chose avec une autre, ou plusieurs choses ensemble, de façon qu’elles forment comme un tout.
- 2Ne pas faire la distinction entre plusieurs choses.
- 3Provoquer la confusion chez quelqu’un.
- 4s’embrouiller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mélanger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sables sont les matières que l'on mélange le plus habituellement à la chaux pour former les mortiers ; ils doivent être rudes au toucher et crier quand on les serre dans la main.
Je veux simplement examiner la toxicité de certaines graines étrangères qui se trouvent mélangées à l'avoine en proportion parfois importante et auxquelles on attribue des propriétés toxiques : l’ivraie enivrante et la nielle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- melanger
- mléanger
- mmélanger
- méalnger
- mélagner
- mélanegr
- mélangerr
- mélangger
- mélangre
- mélannger
- méllanger
- mélnager
- émlanger
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mélanger - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mélanger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "mélanger" maps to 9 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Mélanie". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,202 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "M" letter cohort. M–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.