mala palabra
The verdict
“mala palabra” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Palabra o conjunto de palabras malsonantes u ofensivas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mala palabra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmala paˈlaβ̞ɾa] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mala palabra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mala palabra is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmala paˈlaβ̞ɾa]. 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: "Palabra o conjunto de palabras malsonantes u ofensivas.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mala palabra 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 palabra, spelled M-A-L-A- -P-A-L-A-B-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Palabra o conjunto de palabras malsonantes u ofensivas.
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Using “mala palabra”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L-A- -P-A-L-A-B-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmala paˈlaβ̞ɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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