medico
"medico" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“medico” is uncommon English (frequency #53,693 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,693
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
Corpus desk
Index EN-medico · medico · English
medico · rank #53,693 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,693
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Meagher
Nearest frequency peer: Meagher (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “medico”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- McEvoy
McEvoy
46,311 corpus weight
- McLellan
McLellan
46,310 corpus weight
- Meagher
Meagher
46,309 corpus weight
- medico
medico
46,308 corpus weight
- medulla
medulla
46,307 corpus weight
- meerkat
meerkat
46,306 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “medico” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medico |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,693 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “medico” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
medico is uncommon English at frequency #53,693 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.".
No misspelling variants are generated for medico in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is medico, spelled M-E-D-I-C-O.
Definition
- 1A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how medico appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young med…
He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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