mélanome
\me.la.nom\
The verdict
“mélanome” is uncommon French (frequency #50,988 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,988
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tumeur dont les cellules sont pigmentées par de la mélanine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melanome · mélanome · French
mélanome · rank #50,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,988
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mythomane
Nearest frequency peer: mythomane (-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 « mélanome »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mulets
mulets
49,016 corpus weight
- Musik
Musik
49,015 corpus weight
- mythomane
mythomane
49,014 corpus weight
- mélanome
mélanome
49,013 corpus weight
- mérovingien…
mérovingienne
49,012 corpus weight
- métallurgiq…
métallurgiques
49,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélanome » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélanome |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.la.nom\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélanome » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélanome is uncommon French at frequency #50,988 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.la.nom\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tumeur dont les cellules sont pigmentées par de la mélanine.".
mélanome doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is mélanome, spelled M-É-L-A-N-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1Tumeur dont les cellules sont pigmentées par de la mélanine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mélanome appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’autres types de tumeurs oculaires (mélanome, carcinome ou lymphome) peuvent se développer dans la conjonctive, les paupières ou l’orbite.
Eux qui ont cru au progrès de la science et à ses mots (produits « phytosanitaires », « glyphosate »), découvrent dans leur chambre d’hôpital l’autre nom du projet productiviste : leucémie, tumeur cérébrale, cancer du sang, mélanome, blastes, troubles cognitifs, moelle osseuse détruite…
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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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