mala mano
The verdict
“mala mano” 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
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Falta de destreza o habilidad en la ejecución de una tarea.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mala mano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmala ˈmano] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mala mano” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mala mano is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmala ˈmano]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for mala mano 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 mano, spelled M-A-L-A- -M-A-N-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Falta de destreza o habilidad en la ejecución de una tarea.
- 2Hecho o palabra equivocada o poco afortunada.
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Using “mala mano”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L-A- -M-A-N-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmala ˈmano] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Nearby Spanish words
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