mela
\ˈme.la\
The verdict
“mela” is uncommon French (frequency #62,443 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,443
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pomme (le fruit).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mela · mela · French
mela · rank #62,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,443
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Meir
Nearest frequency peer: Meir (-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 « mela »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maximilian
Maximilian
37,562 corpus weight
- Meir
Meir
37,559 corpus weight
- mela
mela
37,558 corpus weight
- mello
mello
37,556 corpus weight
- Mikko
Mikko
37,555 corpus weight
- milkshake
milkshake
37,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mela » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈme.la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #62,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mela » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mela is uncommon French at frequency #62,443 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈme.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pomme (le fruit).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mela, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is mela, spelled M-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Pomme (le fruit).
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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