medicina

//me.dʒi.ˈsi.nə// noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,854

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

medicina is aPortuguesenoun. It means: ciência que tem como objetivo a conservação e o restabelecimento da saúde, que pretende curar e prevenir as doenças dos seres humanos; técnica de tratar e combater doenças Pronounced /me.dʒi.ˈsi.nə/. It ranks #1,854 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with medicine and mediana.

Key facts for medicina
PropertyValue
Headwordmedicina
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/me.dʒi.ˈsi.nə/
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,854
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of medicina in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for medicina is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /me.dʒi.ˈsi.nə/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,854 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for medicina, with forms such as "emdicina", "mdeicina", and "medciina". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "medicine", "mediana", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 Portuguese form is medicina, spelled M-E-D-I-C-I-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    ciência que tem como objetivo a conservação e o restabelecimento da saúde, que pretende curar e prevenir as doenças dos seres humanos; técnica de tratar e combater doenças
  2. 2
    profissão de médico (também chamado de asclépio, clínico ou esculápio)
  3. 3
    (Com maiúscula) curso superior desta ciência
  4. 4
    (Com maiúscula) faculdade onde se tira o curso desta ciência
  5. 5
    aquilo que alivia as dores, que serve de remédio

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emdicina,mdeicina,medciina,meddicina,mediccina,medician,medicinna,medicnia,mediicna,meidcina,mmedicina

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for medicina

Misspelling Variants of "medicina"

emdicina8mdeicina8medciina8meddicina9mediccina9medician8medicinna9medicnia8
Misspelling Variants of "medicina"

Frequency rank: #1,854 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "medicina"?
"medicina" is spelled M-E-D-I-C-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is /me.dʒi.ˈsi.nə/.
What does "medicina" mean?
As a noun, "medicina" means: ciência que tem como objetivo a conservação e o restabelecimento da saúde, que pretende curar e prevenir as doenças dos seres humanos; técnica de tratar e combater doenças
What words are commonly confused with "medicina"?
"medicina" is commonly confused with "medicine", "mediana". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "medicina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "medicina" is /me.dʒi.ˈsi.nə/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "medicina" come from?
"medicina" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.