Maco
"maco" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maco” is uncommon English (frequency #97,261 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,261
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A municipality of Davao de Oro, Philippines.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maco · Maco · English
Maco · rank #97,261 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,261
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH maceration
Nearest frequency peer: maceration (-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 “Maco”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- macaca
macaca
2,743 corpus weight
- maceration
maceration
2,741 corpus weight
- Maco
Maco
2,740 corpus weight
- Madisonville
Madisonville
2,739 corpus weight
- malleus
malleus
2,736 corpus weight
- Malmaison
Malmaison
2,735 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Maco” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maco |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Maco” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Maco is uncommon English at frequency #97,261 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A municipality of Davao de Oro, Philippines.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Maco in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Maco, spelled M-A-C-O.
Definition
- 1A municipality of Davao de Oro, Philippines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maco appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Meronyms: Anibongan, Anislagan, Binuangan, Bucana, Calabcab, Concepcion, Dumlan, Elizalde, Gubatan, Hijo, Kinuban, Langgam, Lapu-lapu, Libay-libay, Limbo, Lumatab, Magangit, Mainit, Malamodao, Manipongol, Mapaang, Masara, New Asturias, New Barili, New Leyte, New Visayas, Panangan, Pangi, Panibasan, Panoraon, Poblacion, San Juan, San Roque, Sangab, Tagbaro…
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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