Spelling
Medecine or medicine?
Medicine is the right spelling. Medecine is a common misspelling of it.
MEDECINE has E where MEDICINE has I.
Why people write MEDECINE
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
There's a MEDIC in medicine.
How often MEDICINE is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), MEDECINE appears 2 times for every 1,000 MEDICINE, about once for every 500 correct uses.
Is MEDECINE a word?
No. MEDECINE is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. MEDICINE is in all three and scores 13 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What medicine means
noun: The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques.
More words with the same mistake
The wrong vowel:
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