malandra
The verdict
“malandra” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #90,091 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #90,091
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Variante de malandro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malandra |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈlãn̪d̪ɾa] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “malandra” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for malandra is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maˈlãn̪d̪ɾa]. Corpus data places it at rank #90,091 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante de malandro.".
No misspelling variants are generated for malandra 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 malandra, spelled M-A-L-A-N-D-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Variante de malandro.
Frequency rank: #90,091 in Spanish
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Using “malandra”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L-A-N-D-R-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [maˈlãn̪d̪ɾa] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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