medida
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#725
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
medida is aSpanishnoun. It means: Acción o efecto de medir. Pronounced [meˈð̞ið̞a]. It ranks #725 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mida and medio.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medida |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈð̞ið̞a] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for medida is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈð̞ið̞a]. Corpus data places it at rank #725 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for medida, with forms such as "emdida", "mdeida", and "meddida". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mida", "medio", "medir", and more, 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 medida, spelled M-E-D-I-D-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acción o efecto de medir.
- 2Valor numérico de una medida₂.
- 3Unidad estandarizada en que se expresan las medidas₃.
- 4Objeto que se emplea como referencia para las medidas₄.
- 5Por extensión, objeto o concepto cualquiera en referencia al cual se miden o evalúan las restantes.
- 6Relación de proporción o comparación entre dos objetos o conceptos.
- 7Grado de completud o acabamiento de una cosa o situación.
- 8Orden y cantidad de las sílabas de cada verso en una composición poética.
- 9Cinta cortada a la medida₃ de una efigie o icono religioso y estampada a veces con la reproducción de este, que algunos llevan por devoción.
- 10Sensatez y falta de exageración en las obras o ideas.
- 11Disposición o estrategia adoptada para obtener un resultado.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emdida,mdeida,meddida,mediad,medidda,meidda,mmedida
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for medida
Misspelling Variants of "medida"
Frequency rank: #725 in Spanish
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