MACH
/mɑːk/phrase
MACH is spelled M-A-C-H: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a phrase, MACH means “Acronym of microservices, API-first, cloud-native, headless” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in MACH?
| Letters | 4: M-A-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is MACH?
MACH appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 MACH?
- /mɑːk/
- /mæk/
- /maːx/
MACH has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Mach2.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Mach.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Mach3.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does MACH mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
phrase
- 1
Acronym of microservices, API-first, cloud-native, headless.
noun
- 1
A ratio of the speed (of an object, etc.) to the speed of sound in the fluid or other medium through which the object travels. Usually used to describe supersonic speeds; always precedes the Mach number.
The jet traveled at Mach 3.
- 2
informalClipping of Machiavellian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
MACH in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ratio – see also Mach number:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.