medida

/[meˈð̞ið̞a]/ noun

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.

Key facts for medida
PropertyValue
Headwordmedida
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[meˈð̞ið̞a]
Letters6
Frequency rank#725
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Acción o efecto de medir.
  2. 2
    Valor numérico de una medida₂.
  3. 3
    Unidad estandarizada en que se expresan las medidas₃.
  4. 4
    Objeto que se emplea como referencia para las medidas₄.
  5. 5
    Por extensión, objeto o concepto cualquiera en referencia al cual se miden o evalúan las restantes.
  6. 6
    Relación de proporción o comparación entre dos objetos o conceptos.
  7. 7
    Grado de completud o acabamiento de una cosa o situación.
  8. 8
    Orden y cantidad de las sílabas de cada verso en una composición poética.
  9. 9
    Cinta cortada a la medida₃ de una efigie o icono religioso y estampada a veces con la reproducción de este, que algunos llevan por devoción.
  10. 10
    Sensatez y falta de exageración en las obras o ideas.
  11. 11
    Disposición o estrategia adoptada para obtener un resultado.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

emdida6mdeida6meddida7mediad6medidda7meidda6mmedida7
Misspelling Variants of "medida"

Frequency rank: #725 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "medida"?
"medida" is spelled M-E-D-I-D-A. The IPA pronunciation is [meˈð̞ið̞a].
What does "medida" mean?
As a noun, "medida" means: Acción o efecto de medir.
What words are commonly confused with "medida"?
"medida" is commonly confused with "mida", "medio", "medir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "medida"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "medida" is [meˈð̞ið̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "medida" come from?
"medida" 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.