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falla

Spanish, noun

falla is spelled F-A-L-L-A (5 letters) and appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish, the 3,909th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Falla is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “flaw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of fallar. With an accent, fallá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of fallar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Falta”.

What does falla mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineflaw

  2. 2

    femininefailure

  3. 3

    feminineoutage, such as a blackout

  4. 4

    femininefault

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

  3. 3

    first/third-person singular present subjunctive

  4. 4

    third-person singular imperative

verb

as fallá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of fallar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Falta. 2. Avería. 3. Quiebra que los movimientos geológicos han producido en un terreno. 4. Cantidad de real y medio impuesta en Filipinas al indio natural o mestizo por cada uno de los días que no prestaba servicio comunal en los cuarenta que anualmente le eran obligatorios.

noun: 1. Cobertura de la cabeza, que ha muchos años usaban las mujeres para adorno y abrigo de noche al salir de las visitas, la cual dejaba descubierto el rostro solamente, y bajaba cubriendo hasta los pechos y mitad de la espalda.

noun: 1. En la provincia de Valencia, hoguera que los vecinos encienden en las calles la noche de la víspera de san José. En la capital constituyen los objetos que se han de quemar verdaderas obras de arte, formando grupos o representaciones simbólicas alusivas a sucesos de actualidad.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of falla

  • fallas plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to falla

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is falla in Spanish?

falla appears 20 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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