mélodie
\me.lɔ.di\
The verdict
“mélodie” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,911. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,911
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suite de sons d’où résulte un chant agréable et régulier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melodie · mélodie · French
mélodie · rank #10,911 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,911
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH méfier
Nearest frequency peer: méfier (-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 « mélodie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- monseigneur
monseigneur
89,093 corpus weight
- morin
morin
89,092 corpus weight
- méfier
méfier
89,091 corpus weight
- mélodie
mélodie
89,090 corpus weight
- Nanterre
Nanterre
89,089 corpus weight
- nominations
nominations
89,088 corpus weight
What this shows « mélodie » 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 | mélodie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.lɔ.di\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #10,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « mélodie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around mélodie (IPA \me.lɔ.di\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,911 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for mélodie, with forms such as "melodie", "mléodie", and "mmélodie". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "mélodies", "mélodique", "maladie", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mélodie, spelled M-É-L-O-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Suite de sons d’où résulte un chant agréable et régulier.
- 2Arrangement de sons, exécutés, entendus successivement dans un même air, par opposition à l’harmonie qui consiste dans l’accord de plusieurs sons exécutés, entendus simultanément.
- 3Pièce de musique vocale avec accompagnement.
- 4Qualité harmonieuse d’une suite de mots ou de phrases.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mélodie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La mélodie est, à la musique, ce que l’image et le sentiment sont à la poésie, une fleur qui peut s’épanouir spontanément.
Une recette, c’est comme une partition. La musicienne lit les notes qui se présentent à elle et, simultanément, elle en entend la mélodie : les voir c’est les entendre, avant même de les jouer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- melodie
- mléodie
- mmélodie
- méldoie
- méllodie
- méloddie
- mélodei
- méloide
- méoldie
- émlodie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mélodie - 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).