vademécum
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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vademécum is aSpanishnoun. It means: Obra de referencia de poco volumen, apta para llevar consigo. Pronounced [bað̞eˈmekũm].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | vademécum |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [bað̞eˈmekũm] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for vademécum is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [bað̞eˈmekũm]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for vademécum in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 vademécum, spelled V-A-D-E-M-É-C-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Obra de referencia de poco volumen, apta para llevar consigo.
- 2En particular, catálogo de los medicamentos disponibles en un determinado país, con sus dosajes y principios activos, para consulta de médicos y farmacéuticos.
- 3Carpeta para guardar y llevar los útiles y escritos escolares.
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