mélèze
\me.lɛz\
The verdict
“mélèze” is uncommon French (frequency #60,982 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,982
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de conifères, grand arbre résineux de forme pyramidale, à aiguilles caduques, étroites et groupées en bouquets.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meleze · mélèze · French
mélèze · rank #60,982 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,982
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mélina
Nearest frequency peer: Mélina (-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 « mélèze »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- médullaire
médullaire
39,021 corpus weight
- Mélina
Mélina
39,020 corpus weight
- mélèze
mélèze
39,019 corpus weight
- méritocratie
méritocratie
39,018 corpus weight
- nagy
nagy
39,017 corpus weight
- nati
nati
39,016 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélèze » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélèze |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.lɛz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,982 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélèze » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélèze is uncommon French at frequency #60,982 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.lɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de conifères, grand arbre résineux de forme pyramidale, à aiguilles caduques, étroites et groupées en bouquets.".
Zero misspellings are on record for mélèze in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mélèze, spelled M-É-L-È-Z-E.
Definition
- 1Genre de conifères, grand arbre résineux de forme pyramidale, à aiguilles caduques, étroites et groupées en bouquets.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mélèze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a coupé les branchages des chênes, les pies se battent dans les mélèzes et le vent en passant m’a jeté un frisson.
Les usages du mélèze sont nombreux. Aussi robuste qu’élégant, il donne un bois de grande valeur, quasi imputrescible, qui résiste parfaitement aux intempéries. Les plus durables des chalets alpins doivent leur longévité au mélèze et leurs toits revêtus de bardeaux de bois peuvent durer près de cent ans.
This word in other languages
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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