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macaca

/məˈkɑːkə/noun

macaca is spelled M-A-C-A-C-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 97,057th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, macaca means “Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca; a macaque” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of macaca is macacas.

How many letters and syllables are in macaca?

Letters6: M-A-C-A-C-A
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 97,057th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is macaca?

Macaca appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 97,057th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce macaca?

  • US /məˈkɑːkə/
  • US /məˈkækə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with macaca?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as macaca from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkə/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of macaca

  • macacas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does macaca mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    datedAny of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca; a macaque.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does macaca come from?

From the genus name Macaca, from Portuguese macaca, feminine of macaco (“monkey”). Doublet of macaque and macaco.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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