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 May 6, 2026) - A hypermasculine, sexually attractive, virile man.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macho man |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “macho man” sits in English frequency
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.
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.
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Using “macho man”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-A-C-H-O- -M-A-N - 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.