macá

Rare enough to double-check

macá is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [maˈka]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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...".

macá doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is macá, spelled M-A-C-Á.