Méline
\mɛ.lin\
The verdict
“Méline” is uncommon French (frequency #63,190 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,190
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meline · Méline · French
Méline · rank #63,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,190
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mégalomanie
Nearest frequency peer: mégalomanie (-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 « Méline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- myron
myron
36,814 corpus weight
- mégalomanie
mégalomanie
36,812 corpus weight
- Méline
Méline
36,811 corpus weight
- mémorielle
mémorielle
36,810 corpus weight
- nabot
nabot
36,808 corpus weight
- Nagel
Nagel
36,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Méline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Méline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mɛ.lin\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #63,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Méline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Méline is uncommon French at frequency #63,190 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mɛ.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Méline in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Méline, spelled M-É-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
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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