Medellín
"medellin" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Medellín” is uncommon English (frequency #59,543 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,543
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city and departmental capital of Antioquia department, Colombia; the second-largest city in Colombia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-medellin · Medellín · English
Medellín · rank #59,543 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,543
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH meatless
Nearest frequency peer: meatless (-2 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 “Medellín”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McNaughton
McNaughton
40,462 corpus weight
- mealy
mealy
40,461 corpus weight
- meatless
meatless
40,460 corpus weight
- Medellín
Medellín
40,458 corpus weight
- melamine
melamine
40,456 corpus weight
- menorah
menorah
40,455 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Medellín” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Medellín |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,543 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Medellín” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Medellín is uncommon English at frequency #59,543 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city and departmental capital of Antioquia department, Colombia; the second-largest city in Colombia.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Medellín, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Spanish Medellín. The correct English form is Medellín, spelled M-E-D-E-L-L-Í-N.
Definition
- 1A city and departmental capital of Antioquia department, Colombia; the second-largest city in Colombia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Medellín.
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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