machi
"machi" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“machi” is uncommon English (frequency #52,473 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,473
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.
Corpus desk
Index EN-machi · machi · English
machi · rank #52,473 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,473
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Macedon
Nearest frequency peer: Macedon (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “machi”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- LTV
LTV
47,532 corpus weight
- luminescence
luminescence
47,531 corpus weight
- lune
lune
47,530 corpus weight
- Macedon
Macedon
47,529 corpus weight
- machi
machi
47,528 corpus weight
- Matson
Matson
47,523 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “machi” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machi |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,473 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “machi” in English
Rare enough to double-check
machi is uncommon English at frequency #52,473 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for machi in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is machi, spelled M-A-C-H-I.
Definition
- 1A traditional healer and religious leader in the Mapuche culture of Chile and Argentina.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how machi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Many Mapuche women in La Pintana often went without health care because they did not trust conventional Western medicine or feared discrimination in public health clinics, and traveling hundreds of miles to see a machi in their communities of origin was impractical.
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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