mala follá
The verdict
“mala follá” 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
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Acritud.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mala follá |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmala foˈʝa] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mala follá” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mala follá is 10 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmala foˈʝa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mala follá 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 mala follá, spelled M-A-L-A- -F-O-L-L-Á, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Acritud.
- 2Mala intención.
- 3Antipatía.
- 4Sarcasmo.
- 5Socarronería.
- 6Dicho de una tarea, difícil.
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Using “mala follá”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L-A- -F-O-L-L-Á — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmala foˈʝa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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