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Is macaco a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word macaco is a Scrabble US word. The word macaco is worth 12 points in Scrabble:
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Is macaco a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word macaco is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:
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Is macaco a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word macaco is a Words With Friends word. The word macaco is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 24 words from macaco according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Portuguese macaco (“monkey”). Doublet of macaque.
macaco (plural macacos or macacoes)
From French mococo, probably ultimately from Malagasy maka, maki (“lemur”).
macaco (plural macacos or macacoes)
From Portuguese macaco, possibly from a Bantu language.
macaco m (plural macachi)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
macaco (plural macacos)
Unknown. Thought to have been borrowed from a Bantu language. Bantu maka, "cat", comes from -mañga (an old East African Bantu word for the sea-coast, often applied to any strange or foreign product). But it seems unlikely that the Bantu would have used such a word to denote familiar animals like apes and monkeys. However, none of the many Bantu words for apes and monkeys resembles "macaco". Other suggested derivations include:
macaco m (plural macacos, feminine macaca, feminine plural macacas)
A distinction is not commonly made between apes and monkeys in Portuguese. Where it is, mono is used for apes and macaco for middle-sized simians.
A more common distinction is made between macacos and micos (“small, long-tailed simians”).
In Brazil, it is also used an ethnic slur directed to black people, with a strong negative connotation comparable to the English word nigger.
Borrowed from Portuguese macaco, possibly from a Bantu language.
macaco m (plural macacos)
macaco (feminine macaca, masculine plural macacos, feminine plural macacas)