mélatonine
\me.la.tɔ.nin\
The verdict
“mélatonine” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,062. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,062
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Une neurohormone, sécrétée surtout par la glande pinéale en absence de lumière, réputée l’hormone centrale de régulation des rythmes chronobiologiques chez les mammifères et la plupart des espèces ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélatonine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.la.tɔ.nin\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #48,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mélatonine” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around mélatonine (IPA \me.la.tɔ.nin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,062 among 202,672 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Une neurohormone, sécrétée surtout par la glande pinéale en absence de lumière, réputée l’hormone centrale de régulation des rythmes chronobiologiques chez les mammifères et la plupart des espèces ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for mélatonine, with forms such as "melatonine", "mléatonine", and "mmélatonine". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mélatonine, spelled M-É-L-A-T-O-N-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Une neurohormone, sécrétée surtout par la glande pinéale en absence de lumière, réputée l’hormone centrale de régulation des rythmes chronobiologiques chez les mammifères et la plupart des espèces animales complexes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: melatonine,mléatonine,mmélatonine,méaltonine,mélaotnine,mélatnoine,mélatoinne,mélatonien,mélatoninne,mélatonnie,mélatonnine,mélattonine,méllatonine,méltaonine,émlatonine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mélatonine - 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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Using “mélatonine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-É-L-A-T-O-N-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \me.la.tɔ.nin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.