ménélas
\me.ne.las\
The verdict
“ménélas” is uncommon French (frequency #57,451 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,451
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vulgaire et spécifique d’un papillon de la Guyane, le Morphon menelas, lépidoptères diurnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-menelas · ménélas · French
ménélas · rank #57,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,451
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mégawatts
Nearest frequency peer: mégawatts (-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 « ménélas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mâtiné
mâtiné
42,553 corpus weight
- médians
médians
42,552 corpus weight
- mégawatts
mégawatts
42,551 corpus weight
- ménélas
ménélas
42,550 corpus weight
- méthodiste
méthodiste
42,548 corpus weight
- métropolite
métropolite
42,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ménélas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ménélas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \me.ne.las\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ménélas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ménélas is uncommon French at frequency #57,451 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \me.ne.las\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom vulgaire et spécifique d’un papillon de la Guyane, le Morphon menelas, lépidoptères diurnes.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ménélas, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ménélas, spelled M-É-N-É-L-A-S.
Definition
- 1Nom vulgaire et spécifique d’un papillon de la Guyane, le Morphon menelas, lépidoptères diurnes.
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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