medicina
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medicina |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /me.dʒi.ˈsi.nə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1ciência 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
- 2profissão de médico (também chamado de asclépio, clínico ou esculápio)
- 3(Com maiúscula) curso superior desta ciência
- 4(Com maiúscula) faculdade onde se tira o curso desta ciência
- 5aquilo que alivia as dores, que serve de remédio
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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"
Frequency rank: #1,854 in Portuguese
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Nearby Portuguese words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our Portuguese index: