Melilla
"melilla" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Melilla” is uncommon English (frequency #60,280 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,280
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An autonomous city of Spain and exclave at the edge of Morocco.
Corpus desk
Index EN-melilla · Melilla · English
Melilla · rank #60,280 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,280
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mehra
Nearest frequency peer: Mehra (-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 “Melilla”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McLane
McLane
39,726 corpus weight
- megastar
megastar
39,723 corpus weight
- Mehra
Mehra
39,722 corpus weight
- Melilla
Melilla
39,721 corpus weight
- Michiko
Michiko
39,718 corpus weight
- Minos
Minos
39,716 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Melilla” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Melilla” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Melilla is uncommon English at frequency #60,280 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).