melty
\ˈmɛl.ti\
The verdict
“melty” is uncommon French (frequency #96,124 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,124
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a une forte tendance à fondre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melty · melty · French
melty · rank #96,124 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,124
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Meux
Nearest frequency peer: Meux (+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 « melty »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mechelen
Mechelen
3,880 corpus weight
- Meda
Meda
3,879 corpus weight
- melty
melty
3,877 corpus weight
- Meux
Meux
3,876 corpus weight
- MGP
MGP
3,874 corpus weight
- miaulement
miaulement
3,873 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « melty » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melty |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmɛl.ti\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « melty » en français
Rare enough to double-check
melty is uncommon French at frequency #96,124 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmɛl.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a une forte tendance à fondre.".
melty has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is melty, spelled M-E-L-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Qui a une forte tendance à 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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