medicina
medicina is a Spanish noun meaning medicine. It is the 1,177th most common word in Spanish, which puts it at CEFR level A2. It turns up in about 1 in 1,471 sentences of real Spanish prose.
1,177
rank
of 5,000
A2
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 1,471
sentences
contain it
76.7%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing medicina and every Spanish word above it covers 76.7% of the running words in a real book.
Is medicina worth learning now?
medicina sits at rank 1,177, past the first thousand words that cover 75.32% of a book on their own. It is a A2 word: worth learning once the commonest thousand are secure, and you will meet it often enough at that point to make it stick.
Frequency is the honest guide to order, not to method. A word learned from a list on its own fades; the same word met inside a sentence you wanted to read stays. Check a Spanish text against the CEFR bands to see whether what you are reading is at your level.
Spanish words of the same frequency
- noble #1,173 - noble
- camisa #1,174 - shirt
- detalle #1,175 - detail
- emoción #1,176 - emotion
- encantador #1,178 - charming, captivating, enchanting, lovely
- militar #1,179 - to participate actively in a political organization, especially in the military
- equivocar #1,180 - to mistake, mix up
- extranjero #1,181 - foreign
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Where this comes from
The rank is measured, not copied: 394 million words of subtitle dialogue for how Spanish is spoken, and 45 public-domain books for how it is written. Conjugations and plurals count towards the word they belong to, so medicina is ranked as a word rather than as a spelling. The meaning and part of speech come from Wiktionary. Generated 2026-07-27.
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