mala
[ˈmala]
The verdict
“mala” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #748) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #748
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forma del femenino singular de malo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-mala · mala · Spanish
mala · rank #748 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #748
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH luis
Nearest frequency peer: luis (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “mala”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- juegos
juegos
99,256 corpus weight
- lejos
lejos
99,255 corpus weight
- luis
luis
99,254 corpus weight
- mala
mala
99,253 corpus weight
- María
María
99,252 corpus weight
- militar
militar
99,251 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “mala” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mala |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [ˈmala] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “mala”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mala is neighbouring look-alikes ("más", "mil", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced [ˈmala]. Frequency #748 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Gloss: "Forma del femenino singular de malo.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for mala, with forms such as "amla", "maal", and "mlaa". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "más", "mil", "mar", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Spanish form is mala, spelled M-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Forma del femenino singular de malo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amla
- maal
- mlaa
- mmala
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mala - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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