mélo
French, noun/me.lo/
mélo is spelled M-É-L-O (4 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mélo is a French masculine noun meaning “clipping of mélodrame (“melodrama”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mélodrame”.
What does mélo mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineclipping of mélodrame (“melodrama”)
adjective
- 1
colloquialclipping of mélodramatique (“melodramatic”)
prefix
- 1
music, melody; melo-
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Langue omotique parlée en Éthiopie.
noun: 1. Mélodrame.
adjective: 1. Mélodramatique.
prefix: 1. Préfixe exprimant un rapport avec la musique, le chant.
prefix: 1. Relatif au mouton.
prefix: 1. Relatif à la pomme.
prefix: 1. Relatif à un membre anatomique.
prefix: 1. Autres :
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mélo
- mélos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mélo?
- /me.lo/
- \me.lo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mélo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mélo in French?
mélo appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).