medusa
[meˈð̞usa]
The verdict
“medusa” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #28,837 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #28,837
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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...
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 | medusa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [meˈð̞usa] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “medusa” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for medusa is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for medusa, with forms such as "emdusa", "mdeusa", and "meddusa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "mesa", "musa", "modus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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. The correct Spanish form is medusa, spelled M-E-D-U-S-A.
Definition
- 1Organismo 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 largos tentáculos cargados con células urticantes llamados cnidoblastos.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emdusa,mdeusa,meddusa,medsua,meduas,medussa,meudsa,mmedusa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medusa - 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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Using “medusa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-E-D-U-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [meˈð̞usa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “mesa” - see the side-by-side comparison. medusa vs mesa
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.