fallar
Spanish, verb/faˈʝaɾ/
fallar is spelled F-A-L-L-A-R (6 letters) and appears 6.3 times per million words in written Spanish, the 10,117th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fallar is a Spanish verb meaning “to fail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Dicho de un juez o de un árbitro: tomar una decisión y hacerla manifiesta con una sentencia acorde”.
What does fallar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fail
- 2
to crash or break down (a computer)
- 3
to let down (to disappoint)
me fallan los dedos
- 4
to rule, give (a verdict or sentence)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante obsoleta de hallar. 2. Dicho de un juez o de un árbitro: tomar una decisión y hacerla manifiesta con una sentencia acorde.
verb: 1. Hacer mal una cosa, equivocarse. 2. En algunos juegos de cartas, verse en la obligación de usar el triunfo por no tener la carta adecuada.
verb: 1. Estar una cosa equivocada, contener un error. :*Sinónimos: desacertar, equivocar, errar. 2. No funcionar adecuadamente. :*Sinónimos: arruinarse, malograrse. 3. No conseguir una persona los resultados esperados, no cumplir con las expectativas. :*Sinónimos: decepcionar, fracasar. 4. Faltar, debilitarse la resistencia, capacidad, valor o fuerza de algo o alguien. :*Sinónimos: derrumbarse, quebrarse, romperse, vencerse.
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 fallar
- fallo first-person present singular
- fallé first-person preterite singular
- fallado participle past
- fallando gerund
- fallada feminine participle past
- fallados masculine participle past
- falladas feminine participle past
- fallas indicative informal present
- fallás indicative informal present
- falla indicative present singular
- fallamos first-person indicative plural
- falláis indicative plural present
- fallan indicative plural present
- fallaba first-person imperfect indicative
- fallabas imperfect indicative second-person
- fallábamos first-person imperfect indicative
- fallabais imperfect indicative plural
- fallaban imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fallar?
- /faˈʝaɾ/
- [faˈʝaɾ]
- [faˈʎaɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fallar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fallar in Spanish?
fallar appears 6.3 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).