Medina

/[meˈð̞ina]/ name

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,724

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

Medina is aSpanishname. It means: Ciudad de Arabia Saudí, relevante especialmente para los musulmanes, ya que en el año 622 Mahoma llega a Medina. Esto se conoce en el islam como la Hégira y marca el inicio del calendario musulmán. Pronounced [meˈð̞ina]. It ranks #4,724 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mein and medio.

Key facts for Medina
PropertyValue
HeadwordMedina
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechName
IPA[meˈð̞ina]
Letters6
Frequency rank#4,724
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for Medina is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈð̞ina]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,724 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for Medina, with forms such as "emdina", "mdeina", and "meddina". 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, "mein", "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 Medina, spelled M-E-D-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ciudad de Arabia Saudí, relevante especialmente para los musulmanes, ya que en el año 622 Mahoma llega a Medina. Esto se conoce en el islam como la Hégira y marca el inicio del calendario musulmán.
  2. 2
    Medina del Campo, ciudad de España, en Castilla.
  3. 3
    Medina Azahara ciudad palatina árabe en ruinas, vecina de la ciudad de Córdoba.
  4. 4
    Medina de Pomar.
  5. 5
    Ciudad de Minnesota, en los Estados Unidos.
  6. 6
    Medina de Rioseco, ciudad española en la provincia de Valladolid.
  7. 7
    Medina-Sidonia, ciudad española en Cádiz.
  8. 8
    Apellido de origen andaluz.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emdina,mdeina,meddina,median,medinna,mednia,meidna,mmedina

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Medina

Misspelling Variants of "Medina"

emdina6mdeina6meddina7median6medinna7mednia6meidna6mmedina7
Misspelling Variants of "Medina"

Frequency rank: #4,724 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Medina"?
"Medina" is spelled M-E-D-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [meˈð̞ina].
What does "Medina" mean?
As a name, "Medina" means: Ciudad de Arabia Saudí, relevante especialmente para los musulmanes, ya que en el año 622 Mahoma llega a Medina. Esto se conoce en el islam como la Hégira y marca el inicio del calendario musulmán.
What words are commonly confused with "Medina"?
"Medina" is commonly confused with "mein", "medio", "medir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Medina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Medina" is [meˈð̞ina]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Medina" come from?
"Medina" 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.