Melfi
\ˈmɛl.fi\
The verdict
“Melfi” is uncommon French (frequency #89,918 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,918
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Melfi, commune d’Italie de la province de Potenza dans la région de la Basilicate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melfi · Melfi · French
Melfi · rank #89,918 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,918
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mef
Nearest frequency peer: mef (-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 « Melfi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- medicina
medicina
10,085 corpus weight
- mef
mef
10,084 corpus weight
- Melfi
Melfi
10,083 corpus weight
- mense
mense
10,082 corpus weight
- mentionnerai
mentionnerai
10,081 corpus weight
- meri
meri
10,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Melfi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melfi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɛl.fi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #89,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Melfi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Melfi is uncommon French at frequency #89,918 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈmɛl.fi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Melfi, commune d’Italie de la province de Potenza dans la région de la Basilicate.".
Melfi has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Melfi, spelled M-E-L-F-I.
Definition
- 1Melfi, commune d’Italie de la province de Potenza dans la région de la Basilicate.
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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