mal francés
[ˈmal fɾãnˈses]
The verdict
“mal francés” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfermedad de transmisión sexual infecciosa crónica producida por la bacteria espiroqueta Treponema pallidum pallidum.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mal-frances · mal francés · Spanish
mal francés · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal francés |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmal fɾãnˈses] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “mal francés” en español
Rare enough to double-check
mal francés is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase, transcribed [ˈmal fɾãnˈses]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enfermedad de transmisión sexual infecciosa crónica producida por la bacteria espiroqueta Treponema pallidum pallidum.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for mal francés, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is mal francés, spelled M-A-L- -F-R-A-N-C-É-S.
Definition
- 1Enfermedad de transmisión sexual infecciosa crónica producida por la bacteria espiroqueta Treponema pallidum pallidum.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mal francés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Las disputas sobre el origen determinaron que a la sífilis se le conociera como "enfermedad de La Española", "mal francés", "mal napolitano", etcétera .
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.