mélodramatique
\me.lɔd.ʁa.ma.tik\
The verdict
“mélodramatique” is uncommon French (frequency #66,933 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,933
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au mélodrame, qui ressemble au mélodrame, qui est exagéré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melodramatique · mélodramatique · French
mélodramatique · rank #66,933 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,933
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mélangeait
Nearest frequency peer: mélangeait (-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 « mélodramatique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mutée
mutée
33,071 corpus weight
- mélangeait
mélangeait
33,069 corpus weight
- mélodramati…
mélodramatique
33,068 corpus weight
- mémère
mémère
33,067 corpus weight
- namurois
namurois
33,066 corpus weight
- nance
nance
33,065 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélodramatique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélodramatique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.lɔd.ʁa.ma.tik\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #66,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélodramatique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélodramatique is uncommon French at frequency #66,933 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.lɔd.ʁa.ma.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif au mélodrame, qui ressemble au mélodrame, qui est exagéré.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mélodramatique, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mélodramatique, spelled M-É-L-O-D-R-A-M-A-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif au mélodrame, qui ressemble au mélodrame, qui est exagéré.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mélodramatique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Scène mélodramatique.
Gestes mélodramatiques.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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