malgasto
Spanish, verb
malgasto is spelled M-A-L-G-A-S-T-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 102,764th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malgasto is a Spanish verb meaning “first-person singular present indicative of malgastar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, malgastó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of malgastar”.
What does malgasto mean in English?
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of malgastar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of malgastar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acción de desperdiciar o invertir malamente.
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 malgasto
- malgastos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is malgasto in Spanish?
malgasto appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).