macrón
Letters
6 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
macrón is aSpanishnoun. It means: Signo diacrítico en forma de raya horizontal que se usa sobre diversas letras, o debajo de ellas, generalmente para indicar la manera de pronunciarlas. Uno de sus usos más extendidos es para indica... Pronounced [maˈkɾõn].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macrón |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈkɾõn] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for macrón is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈkɾõn]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for macrón 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 macrón, spelled M-A-C-R-Ó-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signo diacrítico en forma de raya horizontal que se usa sobre diversas letras, o debajo de ellas, generalmente para indicar la manera de pronunciarlas. Uno de sus usos más extendidos es para indicar las vocales largas del latín.
- 2Modelo de representación de la energía en tres dimensiones.
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