Mélusine
\me.ly.zin\
The verdict
“Mélusine” is uncommon French (frequency #58,778 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,778
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fée ayant une queue de serpent quand elle se baigne, et à l’origine de la maison des Lusignan, d’après la tradition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melusine · Mélusine · French
Mélusine · rank #58,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,778
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mégalo
Nearest frequency peer: mégalo (-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 « Mélusine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mystificati…
mystification
41,226 corpus weight
- médicalisé
médicalisé
41,225 corpus weight
- mégalo
mégalo
41,224 corpus weight
- Mélusine
Mélusine
41,223 corpus weight
- nanar
nanar
41,222 corpus weight
- nativement
nativement
41,221 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mélusine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mélusine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.ly.zin\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mélusine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mélusine is uncommon French at frequency #58,778 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \me.ly.zin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fée ayant une queue de serpent quand elle se baigne, et à l’origine de la maison des Lusignan, d’après la tradition.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Mélusine, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Mélusine, spelled M-É-L-U-S-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Fée ayant une queue de serpent quand elle se baigne, et à l’origine de la maison des Lusignan, d’après la tradition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mélusine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Ligny, aussi, depuis le haut Moyen-Âge, Mélusine se baignait dans l’Ornain, les nuits de clair de lune.
Au vrai, nos vouivres et notre Mélusine sont « serpentes » et non femmes-poissons, encore qu’il y ait grande analogie.
This word in other languages
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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