mal de la azotea
The verdict
“mal de la azotea” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fuera de sus cabales, con el entendimiento trastornado, loco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal de la azotea |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmal̪ d̪e la asoˈt̪ea] |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal de la azotea” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mal de la azotea is 16 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmal̪ d̪e la asoˈt̪ea]. 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: "Fuera de sus cabales, con el entendimiento trastornado, loco.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal de la azotea 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 mal de la azotea, spelled M-A-L- -D-E- -L-A- -A-Z-O-T-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fuera de sus cabales, con el entendimiento trastornado, loco.
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Using “mal de la azotea”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L- -D-E- -L-A- -A-Z-O-T-E-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmal̪ d̪e la asoˈt̪ea] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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