Melilla

\me.li.la\

/\me.li.la\/ name

The verdict

“Melilla” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,662. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,662
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville autonome espagnole enclavée sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain, sur la Méditerranée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-melilla · Melilla · French

Melilla · rank #48,662 · 8 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,662
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH matérialisé

Nearest frequency peer: matérialisé (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Melilla »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Melilla » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Melilla vs Milla
71% similar
Melilla vs Mélissa
57% similar
Melilla vs Melville
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Melilla
PropertyValue
HeadwordMelilla
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\me.li.la\
Letters7
Frequency rank#48,662
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Melilla »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Melillase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « matérialisé » (#48,661), « mensualité » (#48,663), « Matapédia » (#48,660). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Melilla » est au #48,662. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around Melilla (IPA \me.li.la\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,662 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville autonome espagnole enclavée sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain, sur la Méditerranée.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Melilla, with forms such as "emlilla", "meillla", and "melila". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Milla", "Mélissa", "Melville", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Melilla, spelled M-E-L-I-L-L-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ville autonome espagnole enclavée sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain, sur la Méditerranée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Melilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Par la même route je reviens sur mes pas et arrive à Melilla au Maroc espagnol. Rien à signaler dans ce paysage sans couleur, la ville de Melilla elle-même n'a rien de marocain et elle est si influencée par la pensée espagnole qu'elle ressemble à des douzaines d'autres petits ports d'Espagne.
  2. Tous espèrent atteindre l’autre continent, soit en traversant le détroit de Gibraltar, notamment via les enclaves espagnoles de Ceuta et Melilla, soit en empruntant des barques motorisées (pateras ou feloukas) depuis les côtes atlantiques vers les îles Canaries (espagnoles).

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emlilla
  • meillla
  • melila
  • melilal
  • mellila
  • mellilla
  • mleilla
  • mmelilla

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Melilla - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

emlilla2meillla2melila1melilal2mellila2mellilla1mleilla2mmelilla1
Edit distance from "Melilla"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Melilla"?
"Melilla" is spelled M-E-L-I-L-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is \me.li.la\.
What does "Melilla" mean?
As a proper noun, "Melilla" means: Ville autonome espagnole enclavée sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain, sur la Méditerranée.
What words are commonly confused with "Melilla"?
"Melilla" is commonly confused with "Milla", "Mélissa", "Melville". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Melilla"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Melilla" is \me.li.la\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Melilla" come from?
"Melilla" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Melilla", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list