mélanique
French, adjective\me.la.nik\
mélanique is spelled M-É-L-A-N-I-Q-U-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 42 million words in written French, the 205,184th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mélanique is a French adjective meaning “melanic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui a rapport à la mélanine, à sa couleur, aux tumeurs qu’elle colore”.
What does mélanique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
melanic
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui a rapport à la mélanine, à sa couleur, aux tumeurs qu’elle colore.
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 mélanique
- mélaniques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mélanique?
- \me.la.nik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is mélanique in French?
mélanique appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).