melange

Meanings

Plural: melanges

Noun

a motley assortment of things
A mixture of different things; a disordered mixture.
A Viennese coffee speciality, half steamed milk and half coffee.
A large-scale breccia formed in the accretionary wedge over a subductional environment.

Origin / Etymology

From French mélange, from Middle French mélange, meslange, from Old French meslance, meslinges (“set of diverse elements”), derived from mescler (“to mingle, mix up”) (modern French mêler), from Vulgar Latin *misculāre, from Latin misceō (“mix”) + -inges, a suffix from Frankish *-ingo (“-ing”). More at mix, -ing.

Synonyms

assortment, farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, mixture, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag

Scrabble Score: 10

melange is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
melange is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
melange is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

melange is a valid Words With Friends word