macana
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,350
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
macana is aSpanishnoun. It means: Vara o bastón de madera pesada, a veces guarecida de pedernal, que los caribes y otros pueblos de la región empleaban como arma. Pronounced [maˈkana].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macana |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈkana] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for macana is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈkana]. Corpus data places it at rank #54,350 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for macana 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 macana, spelled M-A-C-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vara o bastón de madera pesada, a veces guarecida de pedernal, que los caribes y otros pueblos de la región empleaban como arma.
- 2Por extensión, bastón grueso o garrote
- 3Porra de goma utilizada por las fuerzas de seguridad para reducir a los detenidos o controlar tumultos.
- 4Figuradamente, pene.
- 5Error que produce un contratiempo.
- 6Afirmación desatinada, falaz o engañosa
- 7Comentario jocoso o humorístico.
Frequency rank: #54,350 in Spanish
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