Melilla
"melilla" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Melilla” is an uncommon English word, ranked #60,280 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #60,280
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melilla |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,280 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Melilla” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Melilla is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #60,280 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Melilla in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Tarifit mlel Tarifit Mliltbor. Arabic مَلِيلْيَة (malīlya)bor. Spanish Melillabor. English Melilla Borrowed from Spanish Melilla. The correct English form is Melilla, spelled M-E-L-I-L-L-A.
Definition
- 1An autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco.
Etymology
Etymology tree Tarifit mlel Tarifit Mliltbor. Arabic مَلِيلْيَة (malīlya)bor. Spanish Melillabor. English Melilla Borrowed from Spanish Melilla.
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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Using “Melilla”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-L-I-L-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.