medium
/ˈmiː.dɪ.əm/
The verdict
“medium” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #31,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,439
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Medio.
Corpus desk
Index ES-medium · medium · Spanish
medium · rank #31,439 · 8 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,439
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH mediadores
Nearest frequency peer: mediadores (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “medium”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- mañas
mañas
68,565 corpus weight
- mecenas
mecenas
68,564 corpus weight
- mediadores
mediadores
68,563 corpus weight
- medium
medium
68,562 corpus weight
- menudos
menudos
68,561 corpus weight
- meteorológi…
meteorológicos
68,560 corpus weight
What this shows “medium” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medium |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmiː.dɪ.əm/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #31,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “medium”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around medium (IPA /ˈmiː.dɪ.əm/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,439 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for medium, with forms such as "emdium", "mdeium", and "meddium". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "medio", "media", "medir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is medium, spelled M-E-D-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Medio.
- 2Intermedio.
- 3Médium.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdium
- mdeium
- meddium
- medimu
- mediumm
- meduim
- meidum
- mmedium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medium - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).