macho
\ma.tʃo\
The verdict
“macho” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,032
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui met sa masculinité en avant de façon considérée comme excessive, voire phallocrate ou misogyne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macho · macho · French
macho · rank #25,032 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,032
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH localisés
Nearest frequency peer: localisés (-1 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « macho »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- leave
leave
74,972 corpus weight
- livrant
livrant
74,971 corpus weight
- localisés
localisés
74,970 corpus weight
- macho
macho
74,969 corpus weight
- magiciens
magiciens
74,968 corpus weight
- mangeais
mangeais
74,967 corpus weight
What this shows « macho » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | macho |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.tʃo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #25,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « macho »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around macho (IPA \ma.tʃo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #25,032 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui met sa masculinité en avant de façon considérée comme excessive, voire phallocrate ou misogyne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for macho, with forms such as "amcho", "maccho", and "machho". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mah", "math", "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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is macho, spelled M-A-C-H-O.
Definition
- 1Qui met sa masculinité en avant de façon considérée comme excessive, voire phallocrate ou misogyne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how macho appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a une espèce d'innocence dans ses propos machos. Il demeure un enfant gâté, toujours prêt à opérer un quelconque Anschluss pour s'approprier les jouets qu'il convoite.
Peut-être est-ce le manque de biographies existant dans le domaine, peut-être que le monde du swing est particulièrement macho (pourquoi plus qu’un autre ?).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amcho
- maccho
- machho
- macoh
- mahco
- mcaho
- mmacho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of macho - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).