melt
\mɛlt\
The verdict
“melt” is uncommon French (frequency #88,888 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,888
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire fondre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melt · melt · French
melt · rank #88,888 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,888
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH melin
Nearest frequency peer: melin (-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 « melt »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- measurement
measurement
11,116 corpus weight
- melin
melin
11,114 corpus weight
- melt
melt
11,113 corpus weight
- menschen
menschen
11,112 corpus weight
- mentirai
mentirai
11,111 corpus weight
- Meurisse
Meurisse
11,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « melt » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \mɛlt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #88,888 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « melt » en français
Rare enough to double-check
melt is uncommon French at frequency #88,888 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \mɛlt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
melt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is melt, spelled M-E-L-T.
Definition
- 1Faire fondre.
- 2Dégeler, fondre.
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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