macá

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for macá is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈka]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ave acuática palmípeda (con dedos unidos por una membrana), semejante al pato, que vuela arrastrándose a flor de agua, llevando sus crías sobre el lomo. Es el nombre común de varias especies que ha...".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for macá in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is macá, spelled M-A-C-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.