macho man
"macho-man" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“macho man” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A hypermasculine, sexually attractive, virile man.
Corpus desk
Index EN-macho-man · macho man · English
macho man · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macho man |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “macho man” in English
Rare enough to double-check
macho man is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A hypermasculine, sexually attractive, virile man.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for macho man in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 macho man, spelled M-A-C-H-O- -M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A hypermasculine, sexually attractive, virile man.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how macho man appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: macho, alpha male, he-man; see also Thesaurus:hypermasculine man
Call him Mister Ego, dig his chains / You can best believe that he's a macho man
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.