Medellín
The verdict
“Medellín” is uncommon French (frequency #66,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,104
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Village d’Espagne situé dans la province de Badajoz, en Estrémadure.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medellin · Medellín · French
Medellín · rank #66,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,104
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH McGraw
Nearest frequency peer: McGraw (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Medellín »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- martyrologe
martyrologe
33,900 corpus weight
- maximums
maximums
33,899 corpus weight
- McGraw
McGraw
33,898 corpus weight
- Medellín
Medellín
33,897 corpus weight
- mektoub
mektoub
33,896 corpus weight
- mentais
mentais
33,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Medellín » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Medellín |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Medellín » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Medellín is uncommon French at frequency #66,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Medellín in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Medellín, spelled M-E-D-E-L-L-Í-N.
Definition
- 1Village d’Espagne situé dans la province de Badajoz, en Estrémadure.
- 2Ville de Colombie, capitale du département d’Antioquia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Medellín appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La bataille de Medellín.
C’est dans cet esprit que nous sommes en train de créer une école à Medellín, en Colombie, pour réintégrer les anciens FARC (mouvement armé d’opposition au gouvernement colombien né dans les années 1960, ndr).
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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