mélodieuse
\me.lɔ.djøz\
The verdict
“mélodieuse” is uncommon French (frequency #71,729 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,729
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de mélodieux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melodieuse · mélodieuse · French
mélodieuse · rank #71,729 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,729
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mélisse
Nearest frequency peer: mélisse (-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 « mélodieuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mécanisée
mécanisée
28,275 corpus weight
- mélisse
mélisse
28,273 corpus weight
- mélodieuse
mélodieuse
28,272 corpus weight
- mémoriel
mémoriel
28,271 corpus weight
- mêlaient
mêlaient
28,270 corpus weight
- napo
napo
28,269 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélodieuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélodieuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.lɔ.djøz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #71,729 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélodieuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélodieuse is uncommon French at frequency #71,729 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.lɔ.djøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de mélodieux.".
mélodieuse has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 mélodieuse, spelled M-É-L-O-D-I-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de mélodieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mélodieuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Homme politique de la force de Saint-Just et de Danton, mais simple et doux comme une jeune fille, plein d’illusions et d’amour, doué d’une voix mélodieuse qui aurait ravi Mozart, Weber ou Rossini, et chantant certaines chansons de Béranger à enivrer le cœur de poésie, d’amour ou d’espérance, Michel Chestien, pauvre comme Lucien, comme Daniel, comme tous…
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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