medicamento

/[með̞ikaˈmẽn̪t̪o]/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,860

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

16

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

medicamento is aSpanishnoun. It means: Sustancia empleada para curar, paliar o prevenir una enfermedad. Pronounced [með̞ikaˈmẽn̪t̪o]. It ranks #9,860 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with medicamentos.

Key facts for medicamento
PropertyValue
Headwordmedicamento
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[með̞ikaˈmẽn̪t̪o]
Letters11
Frequency rank#9,860
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of medicamento in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for medicamento is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [með̞ikaˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #9,860 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sustancia empleada para curar, paliar o prevenir una enfermedad.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for medicamento, with forms such as "emdicamento", "mdeicamento", and "medciamento". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "medicamentos", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is medicamento, spelled M-E-D-I-C-A-M-E-N-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sustancia empleada para curar, paliar o prevenir una enfermedad.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emdicamento,mdeicamento,medciamento,meddicamento,mediacmento,medicaemnto,medicamennto,medicamenot,medicamentto,medicametno,medicammento,medicamneto,mediccamento,medicmaento,meidcamento,mmedicamento

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for medicamento

Misspelling Variants of "medicamento"

emdicamento11mdeicamento11medciamento11meddicamento12mediacmento11medicaemnto11medicamennto12medicamenot11
Misspelling Variants of "medicamento"

Frequency rank: #9,860 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "medicamento"?
"medicamento" is spelled M-E-D-I-C-A-M-E-N-T-O. The IPA pronunciation is [með̞ikaˈmẽn̪t̪o].
What does "medicamento" mean?
As a noun, "medicamento" means: Sustancia empleada para curar, paliar o prevenir una enfermedad.
What words are commonly confused with "medicamento"?
"medicamento" is commonly confused with "medicamentos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "medicamento"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "medicamento" is [með̞ikaˈmẽn̪t̪o]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "medicamento" come from?
"medicamento" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.