macaco
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#57,192
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
macaco is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Macaca spp) Género de primates de la familia de los cercopitédos (monos del antiguo continente), que incluye unas veintidós especies dispersas desde Japón hasta el Medio Oriente y el norte de África. Pronounced [maˈkako].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macaco |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈkako] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for macaco is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈkako]. Corpus data places it at rank #57,192 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for macaco in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.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 macaco, spelled M-A-C-A-C-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Macaca spp) Género de primates de la familia de los cercopitédos (monos del antiguo continente), que incluye unas veintidós especies dispersas desde Japón hasta el Medio Oriente y el norte de África.
- 2Persona de rasgos poco atractivos o deformes.
- 3Persona exigente o difícil de complacer, en particular en cuanto a comidas.
- 4Propio, natural de o relativo a Brasil.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #57,192 in Spanish
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