paramédico

/[paɾaˈmeð̞iko]/ adj

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#53,751

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

paramédico is anSpanishadj. It means: Dícese de la persona que se ha entrenado en procedimientos de la medicina pero que no es médico. Pronounced [paɾaˈmeð̞iko].

Key facts for paramédico
PropertyValue
Headwordparamédico
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdj
IPA[paɾaˈmeð̞iko]
Letters10
Frequency rank#53,751
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for paramédico is 10 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [paɾaˈmeð̞iko]. Corpus data places it at rank #53,751 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Dícese de la persona que se ha entrenado en procedimientos de la medicina pero que no es médico.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for paramédico in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 paramédico, spelled P-A-R-A-M-É-D-I-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Dícese de la persona que se ha entrenado en procedimientos de la medicina pero que no es médico.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #53,751 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paramédico"?
"paramédico" is spelled P-A-R-A-M-É-D-I-C-O. The IPA pronunciation is [paɾaˈmeð̞iko].
What does "paramédico" mean?
As an adj, "paramédico" means: Dícese de la persona que se ha entrenado en procedimientos de la medicina pero que no es médico.
How do you pronounce "paramédico"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paramédico" is [paɾaˈmeð̞iko]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paramédico" come from?
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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.