medicina
\mediˈθina\
The verdict
“medicina” is uncommon French (frequency #89,916 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,916
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medicina · medicina · French
medicina · rank #89,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,916
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mef
Nearest frequency peer: mef (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « medicina »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mazeaud
Mazeaud
10,088 corpus weight
- medicina
medicina
10,085 corpus weight
- mef
mef
10,084 corpus weight
- Melfi
Melfi
10,083 corpus weight
- mense
mense
10,082 corpus weight
- mentionnerai
mentionnerai
10,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « medicina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medicina |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mediˈθina\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « medicina » en français
Rare enough to double-check
medicina is uncommon French at frequency #89,916 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mediˈθina\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for medicina, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is medicina, spelled M-E-D-I-C-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1Médecine.
- 2Médicament.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).