pêche Melba
The verdict
“pêche Melba” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Dessert constitué de pêches blanches, d’une glace à la vanille et d’un coulis de framboises.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pêche Melba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʃ mɛl.ba\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pêche Melba” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pêche Melba is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʃ mɛl.ba\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dessert constitué de pêches blanches, d’une glace à la vanille et d’un coulis de framboises.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pêche Melba in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pêche Melba, spelled P-Ê-C-H-E- -M-E-L-B-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dessert constitué de pêches blanches, d’une glace à la vanille et d’un coulis de framboises.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-Ê-C-H-E- -M-E-L-B-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛʃ mɛl.ba\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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