Medan
"medan" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Medan” is uncommon English (frequency #57,554 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,554
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital and largest city of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-medan · Medan · English
Medan · rank #57,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,554
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH McCaw
Nearest frequency peer: McCaw (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Medan”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- matric
matric
42,450 corpus weight
- McCaw
McCaw
42,448 corpus weight
- Medan
Medan
42,447 corpus weight
- mentalist
mentalist
42,446 corpus weight
- meso
meso
42,445 corpus weight
- metrical
metrical
42,444 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Medan” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Medan |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Medan” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Medan is uncommon English at frequency #57,554 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The capital and largest city of North Sumatra, Indonesia.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Medan in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Malay, said to be from Tamil மைதானம் (maitāṉam, “ground”). More at Medan. The correct English form is Medan, spelled M-E-D-A-N.
Definition
- 1The capital and largest city of North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Etymology
From Malay, said to be from Tamil மைதானம் (maitāṉam, “ground”). More at Medan.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).