malafortunado
[malafoɾt̪uˈnað̞o]
The verdict
“malafortunado” is uncommon Spanish (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que no tiene fortuna o buena suerte; que trae o sufre adversidad.
Corpus desk
Index ES-malafortunado · malafortunado · Spanish
malafortunado · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | malafortunado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [malafoɾt̪uˈnað̞o] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “malafortunado” en español
Rare enough to double-check
malafortunado is uncommon Spanish outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed [malafoɾt̪uˈnað̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que no tiene fortuna o buena suerte; que trae o sufre adversidad.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for malafortunado in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is malafortunado, spelled M-A-L-A-F-O-R-T-U-N-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Que no tiene fortuna o buena suerte; que trae o sufre adversidad.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malafortunado appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Se da con frecuencia, en la vida artística moderna, el caso totalmente nuevo del artista maldito, del talento tímido, insobornable y malafortunado, que muere incomprendido e ignorado.
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.