mélomane
\me.lɔ.man\
The verdict
“mélomane” is uncommon French (frequency #53,506 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,506
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime la musique avec passion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melomane · mélomane · French
mélomane · rank #53,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,506
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Murillo
Nearest frequency peer: Murillo (-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 « mélomane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- moves
moves
46,498 corpus weight
- multipliez
multipliez
46,497 corpus weight
- Murillo
Murillo
46,496 corpus weight
- mélomane
mélomane
46,495 corpus weight
- méprenez
méprenez
46,494 corpus weight
- mésange
mésange
46,493 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mélomane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mélomane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.lɔ.man\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mélomane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mélomane is uncommon French at frequency #53,506 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.lɔ.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui aime la musique avec passion.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for mélomane, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mélomane, spelled M-É-L-O-M-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Qui aime la musique avec passion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mélomane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est très mélomane.
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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