This is the 7226th most frequent French word.
mélo
"Mélo" is short for "mélodrame" and refers to a melodrama or something overly sentimental.
'Mélo' refers to 'melodrama' in the context of cinema, to describe a genre.
Le mélo au cinéma souvent tire sur la corde sensible.
Melodrama in cinema often pulls on the sentimental string.
'Mélo' is used figuratively to describe a dramatic and exaggerated narrative.
Cette histoire est un vrai mélo, remplie d’exagérations improbables.
This story is a real melodrama, filled with unlikely exaggerations.
Here 'mélo' could refer to 'melody', in the musical sense.