melody
/ˈmɛl.ə.di/
"melody" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“melody” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,496
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
Corpus desk
Index EN-melody · melody · English
melody · rank #9,496 · 9 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,496
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH masterpiece
Nearest frequency peer: masterpiece (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “melody”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- logs
logs
90,508 corpus weight
- manor
manor
90,507 corpus weight
- masterpiece
masterpiece
90,506 corpus weight
- melody
melody
90,505 corpus weight
- memo
memo
90,504 corpus weight
- mic
mic
90,503 corpus weight
What this shows “melody” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | melody |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛl.ə.di/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “melody”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around melody (IPA /ˈmɛl.ə.di/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,496 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for melody, with forms such as "emlody", "meldoy", and "mellody". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "moody", "melon", "moldy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ). The correct English form is melody, spelled M-E-L-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how melody appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.
There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
Etymology
From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlody
- meldoy
- mellody
- meloddy
- melodyy
- meloyd
- meoldy
- mleody
- mmelody
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of melody - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).