macadamia
[makaˈð̞amja]
The verdict
“macadamia” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Macadamia) Género de plantas arbóreas de la familia de las proteáceas. Se trata de arbustos o árboles siempreverdes de 2 metros de altura con hojas lanceoladas u obovadas a elípticas de 6-30 cm de...
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Index ES-macadamia · macadamia · Spanish
macadamia · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macadamia |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [makaˈð̞amja] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “macadamia” en español
Rare enough to double-check
macadamia is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [makaˈð̞amja]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for macadamia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is macadamia, spelled M-A-C-A-D-A-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1(Macadamia) Género de plantas arbóreas de la familia de las proteáceas. Se trata de arbustos o árboles siempreverdes de 2 metros de altura con hojas lanceoladas u obovadas a elípticas de 6-30 cm de largo por 2-12 de ancho, con bordes enteros o aserrados, organizadas en verticilos de 3 a 6. Las inflorescencias, axilares o terminales, son largos (5-30 cm) y estrechos racimos, a veces panículas, de pares bracteadas de flores hermafroditas, pediceladas, centimétricas, sin brácteas, con 4 tépalos, blancos, purpúreos o rosados, reflejos en la antesis
- 2Fruto de la macadamia, de semillas comestibles en ciertas especies.
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.