Mélissa
\me.li.sa\
The verdict
“Mélissa” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,949. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,949
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melissa · Mélissa · French
Mélissa · rank #22,949 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,949
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH muets
Nearest frequency peer: muets (-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 « Mélissa »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- morgue
morgue
77,055 corpus weight
- mousquetair…
mousquetaires
77,054 corpus weight
- muets
muets
77,053 corpus weight
- Mélissa
Mélissa
77,052 corpus weight
- mûre
mûre
77,051 corpus weight
- negro
negro
77,050 corpus weight
What this shows « Mélissa » 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 | Mélissa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.li.sa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mélissa »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Mélissa (IPA \me.li.sa\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,949 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mélissa, with forms such as "melissa", "mléissa", and "mmélissa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "métisse", "mélasse", "Marissa", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Mélissa, spelled M-É-L-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mélissa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le pas de côté aurait dû être fait dès la procédure de la cellule interne d’EELV sur les violences sexistes et sexuelles », regrette Mélissa Camara, conseillère municipale à Lille.
L’animateur convie sur le plateau des auteurs d’univers différents qui font l’actualité littéraire aujourd’hui : Jennifer Tamas, Nancy Huston, Marguerite Abouet, Mélissa Da Costa.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- melissa
- mléissa
- mmélissa
- méilssa
- mélisa
- mélisas
- méllissa
- mélsisa
- émlissa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mélissa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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).