melon
French, noun/mə.lɔ̃/
melon is spelled M-E-L-O-N (5 letters) and appears 3.0 times per million words in written French, the 16,088th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Melon is a French masculine noun meaning “melon (fruit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Plante rampante, potagère, annuelle, de la famille des cucurbitacées et qui produit des fruits comestibles”.
What does melon mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemelon (fruit)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plante rampante, potagère, annuelle, de la famille des cucurbitacées et qui produit des fruits comestibles. 2. Fruit de cette plante, à la peau épaisse jaune ou verte, à la chair orange, jaune parfois verte selon les espèces et juteuse. 3. Chapeau melon. 4. Personne d’origine maghrébine, bicot, bougnoule, crouillat, raton.
adjective: 1. Couleur orange jaunâtre de la couleur de la chair du melon. #DE9816
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of melon
- melons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce melon?
- /mə.lɔ̃/
- \mə.lɔ̃\
- [mə.lɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to melon
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is melon in French?
melon appears 3.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).