# medicare

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #7,815

## Definitions
1. The Canadian public health insurance system.

## Easily confused with
- **medicine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/medicare-vs-medicine)
- **mediocre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/medicare-vs-mediocre)
- **meditate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/medicare-vs-meditate)
- **medical** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/medical-vs-medicare)
- **mediate** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mediate-vs-medicare)
- **Medicaid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/medicaid-vs-medicare)

## Common misspellings (11)
`emdicare`, `mdeicare`, `medciare`, `meddicare`, `mediacre`, `medicaer`, `medicarre`, `mediccare`, `medicrae`, `meidcare`, `mmedicare`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/medicare