Melilla
[meˈliʎa]
The verdict
“Melilla” is uncommon German (frequency #68,463 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,463
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - autonome spanische Exklave an der marokkanischen Küste
Corpus desk
Index DE-melilla · Melilla · German
Melilla · rank #68,463 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,463
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH Meisen
Nearest frequency peer: Meisen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Melilla“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- medal
medal
31,544 corpus weight
- medienwirks…
medienwirksam
31,543 corpus weight
- mehrmaligem
mehrmaligem
31,541 corpus weight
- Meisen
Meisen
31,539 corpus weight
- Melilla
Melilla
31,538 corpus weight
- merchant
merchant
31,537 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Melilla“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melilla |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [meˈliʎa] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Melilla“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Melilla is uncommon German at frequency #68,463 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [meˈliʎa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "autonome spanische Exklave an der marokkanischen Küste".
Melilla doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Melilla, spelled M-E-L-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1autonome spanische Exklave an der marokkanischen Küste
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Melilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die spanischen Exklaven Ceuta und Melilla liegen in Afrika, gehören aber zu Europa.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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