macchia
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
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macchia is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tache, souillure sur quelque chose ; marque qui salit. Pronounced \ˈmak.kja\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macchia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmak.kja\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for macchia is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈmak.kja\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for macchia in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 French form is macchia, spelled M-A-C-C-H-I-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tache, souillure sur quelque chose ; marque qui salit.
- 2Tache, marque naturelle qui paraît sur la peau ou sur certains organes → voir tache de rousseur et tache de vin.
- 3Tache, marque naturelle sur la robe d'un animal.
- 4Tache, dans un sens analogue, certaines parties des végétaux.
- 5Maquis.
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