Melilla
\me.li.la\
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
- masquent
masquent
51,342 corpus weight
- Matapédia
Matapédia
51,341 corpus weight
- matérialisé
matérialisé
51,340 corpus weight
- Melilla
Melilla
51,339 corpus weight
- mensualité
mensualité
51,338 corpus weight
- meutre
meutre
51,337 corpus weight
What this shows « Melilla » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Melilla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \me.li.la\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,662 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Melilla »
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
- 1Ville autonome espagnole enclavée sur la côte nord-est du Rif oriental marocain, sur la Méditerranée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Melilla appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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