Melfi
\ˈmɛl.fi\
The verdict
“Melfi” is uncommon French (frequency #89,918 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,918
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Melfi, commune d’Italie de la province de Potenza dans la région de la Basilicate.
| 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) |
Where “Melfi” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Melfi is uncommon French at frequency #89,918 among 202,672 “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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Using “Melfi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-L-F-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.