melrose
The verdict
“melrose” is uncommon French (frequency #58,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,086
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variété de pomme de table, dite aussi « à couteau ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-melrose · melrose · French
melrose · rank #58,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,086
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Meer
Nearest frequency peer: Meer (-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 « melrose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marry
marry
41,918 corpus weight
- matérialisa…
matérialisation
41,917 corpus weight
- Meer
Meer
41,916 corpus weight
- melrose
melrose
41,915 corpus weight
- merles
merles
41,914 corpus weight
- Milet
Milet
41,912 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « melrose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melrose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,086 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « melrose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
melrose is uncommon French at frequency #58,086 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variété de pomme de table, dite aussi « à couteau ».".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for melrose, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is melrose, spelled M-E-L-R-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Variété de pomme de table, dite aussi « à couteau ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how melrose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus de 20.000 variétés de pommes sont cultivées de par le vaste monde – dont une trentaine en France : melrose, canada, clochard, gala, golden, idared, granny smith, reine des reinettes, belle de Boskoop […] .
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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