mélèzes
\me.lɛz\
The verdict
“mélèzes” is uncommon French (frequency #70,046 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,046
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de mélèze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melezes · mélèzes · French
mélèzes · rank #70,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,046
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mélisande
Nearest frequency peer: Mélisande (-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 « mélèzes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- MSS
MSS
29,958 corpus weight
- Mélisande
Mélisande
29,956 corpus weight
- mélèzes
mélèzes
29,955 corpus weight
- méprisait
méprisait
29,953 corpus weight
- méprisez
méprisez
29,952 corpus weight
- méritera
méritera
29,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélèzes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélèzes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.lɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélèzes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélèzes is uncommon French at frequency #70,046 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.lɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de mélèze.".
mélèzes has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 mélèzes, spelled M-É-L-È-Z-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de mélèze.
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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