medicación
Spanish, noun/medikaˈθjon/
medicación is spelled M-E-D-I-C-A-C-I-Ó-N (10 letters) and appears 4.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 14,075th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Medicación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “a medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acción o efecto de medicar”.
What does medicación mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininea medicine, or all the medicines regularly taken by a patient
- 2
femininethe administration of medicine
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción o efecto de medicar. 2. Administración de medicamentos, especialmente cuando se hace de forma regular.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of medicación
- medicaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce medicación?
- /medikaˈθjon/
- [me.ð̞i.kaˈθjõn]
- /medikaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to medicación
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is medicación in Spanish?
medicación appears 4.0 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).