Melun
\mə.lœ̃\
The verdict
“Melun” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,907
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-melun · Melun · French
Melun · rank #19,907 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,907
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH merveilleuses
Nearest frequency peer: merveilleuses (+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 « Melun »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Maximilien
Maximilien
80,097 corpus weight
- mayo
mayo
80,096 corpus weight
- Melun
Melun
80,094 corpus weight
- merveilleus…
merveilleuses
80,093 corpus weight
- Milton
Milton
80,092 corpus weight
- mina
mina
80,091 corpus weight
What this shows « Melun » 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 | Melun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mə.lœ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Melun »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Melun (IPA \mə.lœ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #19,907 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Melun, with forms such as "emlun", "mellun", and "melnu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "men", "mun", "meu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 Melun, spelled M-E-L-U-N.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Melun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne sais à quoi tient que je ne vous fasse donner les étrivières pour votre imbécillité et couardise ; mon chirurgien va vous visiter, et me dira si les horions dont vous vous prétendez navrés sont de conséquence, sinon je vous ferai écorcher vifs comme anguilles de Melun.
À Melun, on s’était tapé un grand crème avec des croissants chauds, et encore un autre après, brûlant, bien sucré, le suprême luxe. Le premier petit déjeuner de ma vie pris dans un bistrot.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emlun
- mellun
- melnu
- melunn
- meuln
- mleun
- mmelun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Melun - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).