medio
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#205
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
medio is anSpanishadj. It means: Que es una de las dos partes iguales en que se divide algo. Pronounced [ˈmeð̞jo]. It ranks #205 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mío and meo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medio |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈmeð̞jo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for medio is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmeð̞jo]. Corpus data places it at rank #205 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for medio, with forms such as "emdio", "mdeio", and "meddio". 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, "mío", "meo", "mei", 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 medio, spelled M-E-D-I-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Que es una de las dos partes iguales en que se divide algo.
- 2Que está situado en un lugar o tiempo equidistante a los extremos de algo.
- 3Que posee las características más generales de un conjunto de elementos.
- 4Se dice de un sonido del habla que se articula en la zona central de la boca.
- 5Se dice de una vocal intermedia entre abierta y cerrada.
- 6Gran parte de, una porción considerable.
- 7Se decía de un estilo intermedio entre el simple y el sublime.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emdio,mdeio,meddio,medoi,meido,mmedio
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for medio
Misspelling Variants of "medio"
Frequency rank: #205 in Spanish
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