médicinal
\me.di.si.nal\
The verdict
“médicinal” is uncommon French (frequency #66,142 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,142
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui sert de remède.
Corpus desk
Index FR-medicinal · médicinal · French
médicinal · rank #66,142 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,142
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mycoses
Nearest frequency peer: mycoses (-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 « médicinal »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- muscadet
muscadet
33,862 corpus weight
- Muñoz
Muñoz
33,861 corpus weight
- mycoses
mycoses
33,860 corpus weight
- médicinal
médicinal
33,859 corpus weight
- mémorise
mémorise
33,858 corpus weight
- ménestrel
ménestrel
33,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « médicinal » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | médicinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \me.di.si.nal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « médicinal » en français
Rare enough to double-check
médicinal is uncommon French at frequency #66,142 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \me.di.si.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui sert de remède.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for médicinal in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is médicinal, spelled M-É-D-I-C-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui sert de remède.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how médicinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils changent d'activité au rythme des saisons, fabriquent des charpagnes ou cherchent dans les bois les plantes médicinales.
Solanum anomalum restera un légume-fruit secondaire. Sa taxinomie, sa composition nutritionnelle et ses propriétés médicinales nécessitent des recherches.
This word in other languages
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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