mélasse
\me.las\
The verdict
“mélasse” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,411. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,411
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Résidu visqueux du sucre après son extraction et sa cristallisation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melasse · mélasse · French
mélasse · rank #39,411 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,411
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH multiculturel…
Nearest frequency peer: multiculturelle (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « mélasse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Moscovite
Moscovite
60,593 corpus weight
- MSC
MSC
60,592 corpus weight
- multicultur…
multiculturelle
60,591 corpus weight
- mélasse
mélasse
60,590 corpus weight
- métaphorique
métaphorique
60,588 corpus weight
- nagasaki
nagasaki
60,587 corpus weight
What this shows « mélasse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | mélasse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.las\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mélasse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around mélasse (IPA \me.las\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,411 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for mélasse, with forms such as "melasse", "mléasse", and "mmélasse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "messe", "Mélissa", "métisse", 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mélasse, spelled M-É-L-A-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Résidu visqueux du sucre après son extraction et sa cristallisation.
- 2Brouillard épais, gadoue, boue : tout terrain ou condition atmosphérique difficile.
- 3Situation difficile, pénible, ou inextricable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mélasse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On place le sirop dans des bacs métalliques, appelés cristallisoirs, où il est exposé à une température de 30 à 35°. Là il ne tarde pas à se prendre en une masse de couleur brune, qui contient différentes matières étrangères, dont les principales sont les mélasses, espèce de sucre incristallisable.
Il y avait bien peu de mets où l'on n’ajoutât pas de mélasse, les bouillies de farine de maïs et de lait appelées soupanes, les crêpes de blé, les fèves au lard et même les viandes se couvraient de mélasse ; les tartines se trempent de mélasse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- melasse
- mléasse
- mmélasse
- méalsse
- mélase
- mélases
- méllasse
- mélsase
- émlasse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mélasse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).