melange

Other forms of melange

plural

melanges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about melange

What does melange mean?

melange means "a motley assortment of things".

How many syllables are in melange?

melange has 2 syllables: mel-ange. The stress falls on "mel". In IPA it is /ˈmɛlæŋ/.

What is another word for melange?

Close synonyms include odds and ends, oddments, farrago, ragbag, mishmash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is melange a common word?

melange is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.