mélodrame
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,061
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
mélodrame is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de drame populaire, mêlé de musique. Pronounced \me.lɔ.dʁam\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélodrame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.lɔ.dʁam\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #36,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mélodrame is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \me.lɔ.dʁam\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,061 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for mélodrame, with forms such as "melodrame", "mléodrame", and "mmélodrame". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mélodrame, spelled M-É-L-O-D-R-A-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de drame populaire, mêlé de musique.
- 2Ouvrage dramatique dans lequel sont accumulées les situations violentes et les péripéties imprévues.
- 3Ouvrage littéraire dont le langage est emphatique et exagéré.
- 4Ensemble de péripéties dans la vie d'une personne.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: melodrame,mléodrame,mmélodrame,méldorame,méllodrame,mélodarme,méloddrame,mélodraem,mélodramme,mélodrmae,mélodrrame,mélordame,méoldrame,émlodrame
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Misspelling Variants of "mélodrame"
Frequency rank: #36,061 in French
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