malanga
[maˈlãŋga]
The verdict
“malanga” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #95,441 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,441
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) Planta herbácea de la familia de las Aráceas, originario de la América tropical, carece de tallo aéreo y tiene hojas grandes, acorazonadas, con rizoma comestible.
Corpus desk
Index ES-malanga · malanga · Spanish
malanga · rank #95,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,441
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH maje
Nearest frequency peer: maje (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “malanga”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- lítico
lítico
4,567 corpus weight
- machacados
machacados
4,566 corpus weight
- maje
maje
4,561 corpus weight
- malanga
malanga
4,560 corpus weight
- mandarines
mandarines
4,556 corpus weight
- maniaco
maniaco
4,555 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “malanga” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malanga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maˈlãŋga] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “malanga” en español
Rare enough to double-check
malanga is uncommon Spanish at frequency #95,441 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [maˈlãŋga]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for malanga, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is malanga, spelled M-A-L-A-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1(Xanthosoma sagittifolium) Planta herbácea de la familia de las Aráceas, originario de la América tropical, carece de tallo aéreo y tiene hojas grandes, acorazonadas, con rizoma comestible.
- 2(Colocasia esculenta) Planta herbácea originaria de Asia de la familia de las aráceas de hojas muy anchas y cormo de gran tamaño comestible de color gris violáceo al cocerse.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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