machaca
[maˈt͡ʃaka]
The verdict
“machaca” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #49,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,122
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Herramienta o instrumento para machacar o golpear.
Corpus desk
Index ES-machaca · machaca · Spanish
machaca · rank #49,122 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,122
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH Lopetegui
Nearest frequency peer: Lopetegui (-2 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “machaca”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- lombriz
lombriz
50,883 corpus weight
- longo
longo
50,882 corpus weight
- Lopetegui
Lopetegui
50,881 corpus weight
- machaca
machaca
50,879 corpus weight
- makes
makes
50,877 corpus weight
- maldijo
maldijo
50,876 corpus weight
What this shows “machaca” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machaca |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈt͡ʃaka] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “machaca”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around machaca (IPA [maˈt͡ʃaka]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,122 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for machaca, with forms such as "amchaca", "macahca", and "macchaca". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "machado", "muchacha", "manchada", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is machaca, spelled M-A-C-H-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1Herramienta o instrumento para machacar o golpear.
- 2Repetición o insistencia en algo, hasta producir molestia o cansar.
- 3Carne de res secada para su conservación.
- 4Alimento, sustancia que se come, comida.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amchaca
- macahca
- macchaca
- machaac
- machacca
- machcaa
- machhaca
- mahcaca
- mcahaca
- mmachaca
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of machaca - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "machaca", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).