Mehmed
"mehmed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mehmed” is uncommon English (frequency #83,502 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,502
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mehmed · Mehmed · English
Mehmed · rank #83,502 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,502
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Melayu
Nearest frequency peer: Melayu (+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 “Mehmed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McDade
McDade
16,505 corpus weight
- medially
medially
16,504 corpus weight
- medicinally
medicinally
16,502 corpus weight
- Mehmed
Mehmed
16,499 corpus weight
- Melayu
Melayu
16,498 corpus weight
- menudo
menudo
16,494 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mehmed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mehmed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mehmed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mehmed is uncommon English at frequency #83,502 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Mehmed in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad. The correct English form is Mehmed, spelled M-E-H-M-E-D.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Turkish, variant of Muhammad.
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish محمد (Mehmed, Mehmet), from Arabic مُحَمَّد (muḥammad). Doublet of Muhammad.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).