meltdown
The verdict
“meltdown” is uncommon French (frequency #67,694 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,694
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Crise autistique se caractérisant par une réaction vive : fuite, crise de larme, crise de colère, en réaction à une surcharge sensorielle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meltdown · meltdown · French
meltdown · rank #67,694 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,694
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH MDMA
Nearest frequency peer: MDMA (-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 « meltdown »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maton
maton
32,311 corpus weight
- MDMA
MDMA
32,308 corpus weight
- meltdown
meltdown
32,307 corpus weight
- menacerait
menacerait
32,306 corpus weight
- menstruelle
menstruelle
32,305 corpus weight
- Mesrine
Mesrine
32,304 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « meltdown » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meltdown |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #67,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « meltdown » en français
Rare enough to double-check
meltdown is uncommon French at frequency #67,694 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Crise autistique se caractérisant par une réaction vive : fuite, crise de larme, crise de colère, en réaction à une surcharge sensorielle.".
meltdown has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is meltdown, spelled M-E-L-T-D-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1Crise autistique se caractérisant par une réaction vive : fuite, crise de larme, crise de colère, en réaction à une surcharge sensorielle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how meltdown appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans un environnement trop riche sensoriellement […] toute sollicitation extérieure, toute contrainte sociale supplémentaire devient insupportable, et si l'entourage pousse à la communication, cela peut mener au meltdown.
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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