medicine
/ˈmɛ.də.sɪn/, /ˈmɛ.ɾə.sɪn/
The verdict
“medicine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #21,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,513
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,087
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - medicina
Corpus desk
Index PT-medicine · medicine · Portuguese
medicine · rank #21,513 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,513
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,087
- PHOTO-FINISH melhoramento
Nearest frequency peer: melhoramento (+2 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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “medicine”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- leopardo
leopardo
78,502 corpus weight
- masculinida…
masculinidade
78,491 corpus weight
- medicine
medicine
78,488 corpus weight
- melhoramento
melhoramento
78,486 corpus weight
- mãozinha
mãozinha
78,479 corpus weight
- nula
nula
78,471 corpus weight
What this shows “medicine” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | medicine |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmɛ.də.sɪn/, /ˈmɛ.ɾə.sɪn/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “medicine”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around medicine (IPA /ˈmɛ.də.sɪn/, /ˈmɛ.ɾə.sɪn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,513 among 1,087 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for medicine, with forms such as "emdicine", "mdeicine", and "medciine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "medicina", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Portuguese form is medicine, spelled M-E-D-I-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1medicina
- 2indivíduo que pratica a medicina
- 3medicação, medicamento, remédio
- 4tratamento
- 5objeto que, segundo a crença de índios norte-americanos, concede poderes sobre forças naturais e mágicas
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how medicine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many doctors go to Canada but find that they can't practice medicine there.
After I got out of the hospital, I went to the drug store and bought medicine for my ear problem.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emdicine
- mdeicine
- medciine
- meddicine
- mediccine
- medicien
- medicinne
- medicnie
- mediicne
- meidcine
- mmedicine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of medicine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "medicine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).