macho
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,802
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
macho is aSpanishnoun. It means: En las especies de reproducción sexual, uno de los dos sexos, aquel que aporta el gameto de menor tamaño al cigoto y que entre los vertebrados no gesta internamente en ningún momento. Pronounced [ˈmat͡ʃo]. It ranks #4,802 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with mano and mayo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmat͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for macho is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmat͡ʃo]. Corpus data places it at rank #4,802 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for macho, with forms such as "amcho", "maccho", and "machho". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mano", "mayo", "malo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 macho, spelled M-A-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1En las especies de reproducción sexual, uno de los dos sexos, aquel que aporta el gameto de menor tamaño al cigoto y que entre los vertebrados no gesta internamente en ningún momento.
- 2Entre un par de dos conectores, aquella pieza cuyas partes a conectar protuberan.
- 3En los cuadrúpedos que tienen cola protuberante, tronco de la misma.
- 4Pilar de cascote, piedra o ladrillo, yeso o cal, que, intercalados entre tapias, forman las cabeceras de las mismas y sirven de gobierno y trabazón a la pared.
- 5Animal de carga, por lo general estéril, producto del cruce entre asnos y caballos.
- 6Pieza para hacer rosca a las tuercas cuando están aisladas.
- 7En la baraja española, el as de espadas.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amcho,maccho,machho,macoh,mahco,mcaho,mmacho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for macho
Misspelling Variants of "macho"
Frequency rank: #4,802 in Spanish
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