melo
[ˈmelo]
The verdict
“melo” is uncommon German (frequency #85,574 among 3,571 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,574
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Negativform Indikativ Präsens des Verbs meloa
Corpus desk
Index DE-melo · melo · German
melo · rank #85,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,574
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH meisterhafte
Nearest frequency peer: meisterhafte (-2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “melo”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Mehrbedarf
Mehrbedarf
14,431 corpus weight
- mehrmonatig…
mehrmonatigen
14,430 corpus weight
- meisterhafte
meisterhafte
14,429 corpus weight
- melo
melo
14,427 corpus weight
- Menschenges…
Menschengestalt
14,425 corpus weight
- menschenwür…
menschenwürdig
14,424 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “melo” sits against the nearest ranked German headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ˈmelo] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Wo “melo” in der deutschen Häufigkeit sitzt
Rare enough to double-check
melo is uncommon German at frequency #85,574 among 3,571 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ˈmelo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for melo, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is melo, spelled M-E-L-O.
Definition
- 1Negativform Indikativ Präsens des Verbs meloa
- 22. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs meloa
- 32. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Negativ des Verbs meloa
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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