Meulan
The verdict
“Meulan” is uncommon French (frequency #70,022 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,022
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien nom de la commune française Meulan-en-Yvelines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-meulan · Meulan · French
Meulan · rank #70,022 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,022
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mesurons
Nearest frequency peer: mesurons (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Meulan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mersch
Mersch
29,983 corpus weight
- mesh
mesh
29,982 corpus weight
- mesurons
mesurons
29,981 corpus weight
- Meulan
Meulan
29,979 corpus weight
- Millar
Millar
29,976 corpus weight
- millard
millard
29,975 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Meulan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Meulan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Meulan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Meulan is uncommon French at frequency #70,022 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien nom de la commune française Meulan-en-Yvelines.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Meulan in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists 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 Meulan, spelled M-E-U-L-A-N.
Definition
- 1Ancien nom de la commune française Meulan-en-Yvelines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Meulan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai été à pied à Meulan et j’y ai pris le roulant vif.
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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