# medication

> English word · Noun · IPA /mɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/ · frequency rank #5,610

## Definitions
1. A medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient.
2. The administration of medicine.

## Etymology
From Middle English medicacioun, from Middle French médication and its etymon Latin medicātiō, from medicārī (“to heal, cure”), from medicus (“a physician, surgeon”), from medērī (“to heal”). Equivalent to medicate + -ion.

## Easily confused with
- **meditation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/medication-vs-meditation)
- **mediation** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mediation-vs-medication)

## Common misspellings (15)
`emdication`, `mdeication`, `medciation`, `meddication`, `mediaction`, `medicaiton`, `medicasion`, `medicatino`, `medicationn`, `medicatoin`, `medicattion`, `mediccation`, `medictaion`, `meidcation`, `mmedication`

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