mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos
The verdict
“mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proverb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 33
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Se dice en contra de quien intenta usar como consuelo el hecho de que haya muchas personas padeciendo el mismo problema.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proverb |
| IPA | [ˈmal̪ d̪e ˈmut͡ʃos | kõnˈswelo ð̞e ˈt̪õn̪t̪os] |
| Letters | 33 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos is 33 letters long, classified as a proverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmal̪ d̪e ˈmut͡ʃos | kõnˈswelo ð̞e ˈt̪õn̪t̪os]. 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: "Se dice en contra de quien intenta usar como consuelo el hecho de que haya muchas personas padeciendo el mismo problema.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos 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 muchos, consuelo de tontos, spelled M-A-L- -D-E- -M-U-C-H-O-S-,- -C-O-N-S-U-E-L-O- -D-E- -T-O-N-T-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dice en contra de quien intenta usar como consuelo el hecho de que haya muchas personas padeciendo el mismo problema.
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Using “mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L- -D-E- -M-U-C-H-O-S-,- -C-O-N-S-U-E-L-O- -D-E- -T-O-N-T-O-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmal̪ d̪e ˈmut͡ʃos | kõnˈswelo ð̞e ˈt̪õn̪t̪os] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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