malentender
Spanish, verb/malentenˈdeɾ/
malentender is spelled M-A-L-E-N-T-E-N-D-E-R (11 letters) and appears about once in every 45 million words in written Spanish, the 236,842nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malentender is a Spanish verb meaning “to misunderstand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Interpretar o entender (algo o a alguien) de una manera equivocada; errar en la comprensión de un mensaje o…”.
What does malentender mean in English?
verb
- 1
to misunderstand
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Interpretar o entender (algo o a alguien) de una manera equivocada; errar en la comprensión de un mensaje o de una persona.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of malentender
- malentiendo first-person present singular
- malentendí first-person preterite singular
- malentendido participle past
- e-ie alternation
- malentendiendo gerund
- malentendida feminine participle past
- malentendidos masculine participle past
- malentendidas feminine participle past
- malentiendes indicative informal present
- malentendés indicative informal present
- malentiende indicative present singular
- malentendemos first-person indicative plural
- malentendéis indicative plural present
- malentienden indicative plural present
- malentendía first-person imperfect indicative
- malentendías imperfect indicative second-person
- malentendíamos first-person imperfect indicative
- malentendíais imperfect indicative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce malentender?
- /malentenˈdeɾ/
- [ma.lẽn̪.t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
- [malẽn̪t̪ẽn̪ˈd̪eɾ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to malentender
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is malentender in Spanish?
malentender appears about once in every 45 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).