medusa

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The Spanish entry for medusa is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [meˈð̞usa]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,837 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Organismo clasificados en el filo Cnidaria, pelágicos, de cuerpo gelatinoso, con forma de campana de la que cuelga un manubrio tubular, con la boca en su extremo inferior, a veces prolongado por la...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for medusa, with forms such as "emdusa", "mdeusa", and "meddusa". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mesa", "musa", "modus", 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 medusa, spelled M-E-D-U-S-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.