medical

[ˈmedɪkl]

/[ˈmedɪkl]/ adj

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The verdict

“medical” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #15,154. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,154
frequency rank, German
3,571
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ärztlich, medizinisch

Corpus desk

Index DE-medical · medical · German

medical · rank #15,154 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,154
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,571
  • PHOTO-FINISH Meditation

Nearest frequency peer: Meditation (+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.

Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „medical“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „medical“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

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).

medical vs medici
71% similar
medical vs Medina
57% similar
medical vs Musical
57% similar

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

Key facts for medical
PropertyValue
Headwordmedical
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdjective
IPA[ˈmedɪkl]
Letters7
Frequency rank#15,154
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „medical“

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.medicalliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

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

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Meditation“ (#15,155), „Matte“ (#15,152), „Melbourne“ (#15,156). Unter 3,571 „M“-Lemmata liegt „medical“ bei #15,154. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around medical (IPA [ˈmedɪkl]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,154 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "ärztlich, medizinisch".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for medical, with forms such as "emdical", "mdeical", and "medcial". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "medici", "Medina", "Musical", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is medical, spelled M-E-D-I-C-A-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    ärztlich, medizinisch

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. "I may say that I was his personal friend as well as his medical attendant."
  2. "The smell here was more medical than Carol's home."

This word in other languages

médical(Français)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emdical
  • mdeical
  • medcial
  • meddical
  • mediacl
  • medicall
  • mediccal
  • medicla
  • meidcal
  • mmedical

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medical - 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.

emdical2mdeical2medcial2meddical1mediacl2medicall1mediccal1medicla2
Edit distance from "medical"

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "medical"?
"medical" is spelled M-E-D-I-C-A-L. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmedɪkl].
What does "medical" mean?
As an adjective, "medical" means: ärztlich, medizinisch
What words are commonly confused with "medical"?
"medical" is commonly confused with "medici", "Medina", "Musical". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "medical"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "medical" is [ˈmedɪkl]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "medical" come from?
"medical" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Neuhaus#15,168kratzen#15,138Kaution#15,130Polemik#15,182

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Gremium10 variantsgepaart10 variantsGeorges10 variantsFrench10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list