de mala gana

/[d̪e ˈmala ˈɣ̞ana]/ phrase

Letters

12 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

de mala gana is aSpanishphrase. It means: Con desagrado, a disgusto, obligado por la fuerza. Pronounced [d̪e ˈmala ˈɣ̞ana].

Key facts for de mala gana
PropertyValue
Headwordde mala gana
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[d̪e ˈmala ˈɣ̞ana]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

de mala gana is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for de mala gana is 12 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [d̪e ˈmala ˈɣ̞ana]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Con desagrado, a disgusto, obligado por la fuerza.".

No misspelling variants are generated for de mala gana in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish 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 Spanish form is de mala gana, spelled D-E- -M-A-L-A- -G-A-N-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Con desagrado, a disgusto, obligado por la fuerza.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "de mala gana"?
"de mala gana" is spelled D-E- -M-A-L-A- -G-A-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is [d̪e ˈmala ˈɣ̞ana].
What does "de mala gana" mean?
As a phrase, "de mala gana" means: Con desagrado, a disgusto, obligado por la fuerza.
How do you pronounce "de mala gana"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "de mala gana" is [d̪e ˈmala ˈɣ̞ana]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "de mala gana" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.