melovsMéryWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: melo is a noun, Méry is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“melo” is a noun and “Méry” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,955
“melo” frequency rank
#48,675
“Méry” frequency rank
85630
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature melo Méry
Definition Blaireau. Commune française, située dans le département de la Savoie.

Letter map: melo vs Méry

Shared letters muted; letters that set melo and Méry apart highlighted. Shared run: 1. melo and Méry follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

4 ch
melo
4 ch
Méry

Role in the sentence - melo and Méry

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: melo is anoun and Méryaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85630, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

melo is recorded at frequency rank #36,955, classified as anoun, pronounced \ˈme.lo\. Méry is at rank #48,675, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 85630, this pair ranks #11,014 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of melo vs Méry

Shared letters: m. Private to "melo": elo. Private to "Méry": ryé.

"melo" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Méry" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • melo ← emlo · mello · meol · mleo · mmelo

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "melo" and "Méry" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "melo" is a noun and "Méry" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "melo" or "Méry" show up more?
"melo" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #36,955 in our French list, against #48,675 for "Méry". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "melo" and "Méry".

  • Full dictionary entry for "melo" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Méry" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #11,014 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "melo" and "Méry" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "memo vs Méry". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #11,014 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list