macchiato
/ˌmɑkiˈɑtoʊ/
"macchiato" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“macchiato” is uncommon English (frequency #63,774 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,774
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espresso topped with steamed milk.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macchiato |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˌmɑkiˈɑtoʊ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,774 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “macchiato” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
macchiato is uncommon English at frequency #63,774 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˌmɑkiˈɑtoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for macchiato, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Italian caffè macchiato (“stained coffee”), from macchiato (“stained, marked”), as the coffee is “marked” with a spot of milk. From Latin maculātus (“stained”), form of macula (“stain”). Cognate to English macula (“[dark] spot”), French maculé. The correct English form is macchiato, spelled M-A-C-C-H-I-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1Espresso topped with steamed milk.
- 2Ellipsis of latte macchiato.
Etymology
From Italian caffè macchiato (“stained coffee”), from macchiato (“stained, marked”), as the coffee is “marked” with a spot of milk. From Latin maculātus (“stained”), form of macula (“stain”). Cognate to English macula (“[dark] spot”), French maculé.
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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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “macchiato”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-C-C-H-I-A-T-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.