Melville
The verdict
“Melville” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #37,918 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #37,918
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom de famille.
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 | Melville |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,918 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Melville” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Melville is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #37,918 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Melville, with forms such as "emlville", "melivlle", and "mellville". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "merveille", "Melilla", "médaillé", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Melville, spelled M-E-L-V-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emlville,melivlle,mellville,melvile,melvilel,melvlile,melvville,mevlille,mleville,mmelville
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Melville - 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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Using “Melville”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-E-L-V-I-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “merveille” - see the side-by-side comparison. Melville vs merveille
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.