melon d’eau
\mə.lɔ̃ d‿o\
The verdict
“melon d’eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pastèque (plante de nom scientifique Citrullus lanatus).
Corpus desk
Index FR-melon-d-eau · melon d’eau · French
melon d’eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melon d’eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mə.lɔ̃ d‿o\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « melon d’eau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
melon d’eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mə.lɔ̃ d‿o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for melon d’eau, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is melon d’eau, spelled M-E-L-O-N- -D-’-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Pastèque (plante de nom scientifique Citrullus lanatus).
- 2Pastèque (fruit).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how melon d’eau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Le Melon d’eau, est un des meilleurs fruits qui y croissent, j’en ay veu d’aussi gros qu’une valise […] »
« L’apresdiné nous fûmes avec M. d’Arsilli chez un Peintre, où je vis un Tableau de deux Gueux, dont l’un mangeoit un raisin, & l’autre un melon d’eau […] »
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.