Mellifluous

🔊 muh-LIF-loo-us  ·  adjective

Some voices just do something to you — a radio announcer, a singer, someone reading you a bedtime story. Mellifluous describes a sound, usually a voice, so smooth and effortless to listen to that it's basically edible. It's one of the only English words that literally means "sounds like honey."

This word is one of the only ones in English built entirely out of the word for honey. See it used in the wild, the one mistake people make with it, and the surprisingly unrelated word waiting on the next page.