mélodrame

/\me.lɔ.dʁam\/ noun

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\.

Key facts for mélodrame
PropertyValue
Headwordmélodrame
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\me.lɔ.dʁam\
Letters9
Frequency rank#36,061
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mélodrame in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

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

  1. 1
    Sorte de drame populaire, mêlé de musique.
  2. 2
    Ouvrage dramatique dans lequel sont accumulées les situations violentes et les péripéties imprévues.
  3. 3
    Ouvrage littéraire dont le langage est emphatique et exagéré.
  4. 4
    Ensemble de péripéties dans la vie d'une personne.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: melodrame,mléodrame,mmélodrame,méldorame,méllodrame,mélodarme,méloddrame,mélodraem,mélodramme,mélodrmae,mélodrrame,mélordame,méoldrame,émlodrame

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mélodrame

Misspelling Variants of "mélodrame"

melodrame9mléodrame9mmélodrame10méldorame9méllodrame10mélodarme9méloddrame10mélodraem9
Misspelling Variants of "mélodrame"

Frequency rank: #36,061 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mélodrame"?
"mélodrame" is spelled M-É-L-O-D-R-A-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is \me.lɔ.dʁam\.
What does "mélodrame" mean?
As a noun, "mélodrame" means: Sorte de drame populaire, mêlé de musique.
What are common misspellings of "mélodrame"?
Common misspellings include "melodrame", "mléodrame", "mmélodrame", "méldorame", "méllodrame". The correct spelling is "mélodrame".
How do you pronounce "mélodrame"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mélodrame" is \me.lɔ.dʁam\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mélodrame" come from?
"mélodrame" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.