medicina legal
The verdict
“medicina legal” is uncommon Portuguese (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Portuguese
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ramo da medicina que aplica conhecimentos médicos à justiça, especialmente na investigação de crimes e elaboração de laudos periciais
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medicina legal |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “medicina legal” sits in Portuguese frequency
Rare enough to double-check
medicina legal is uncommon Portuguese outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ramo da medicina que aplica conhecimentos médicos à justiça, especialmente na investigação de crimes e elaboração de laudos periciais".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for medicina legal, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is medicina legal, spelled M-E-D-I-C-I-N-A- -L-E-G-A-L.
Definition
- 1ramo da medicina que aplica conhecimentos médicos à justiça, especialmente na investigação de crimes e elaboração de laudos periciais
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “medicina legal”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is M-E-D-I-C-I-N-A- -L-E-G-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.