malla
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#16,899
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
malla is aSpanishnoun. It means: Cada uno de los cuadriláteros que, formados por cuerdas o hilos que se cruzan y se anudan en sus cuatro vértices, constituyen el tejido de la red. Pronounced [ˈmaʝa]. Often confused with malo and mamá.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malla |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈmaʝa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,899 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for malla is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmaʝa]. Corpus data places it at rank #16,899 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for malla, with forms such as "amlla", "malal", and "mlala". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "malo", "mamá", "mapa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 malla, spelled M-A-L-L-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cada uno de los cuadriláteros que, formados por cuerdas o hilos que se cruzan y se anudan en sus cuatro vértices, constituyen el tejido de la red.
- 2Tejido de pequeños anillos o eslabones de hierro o de otro metal, enlazados entre sí, del que se hacían las cotas y otras armaduras defensivas, y se hacen actualmente portamonedas, bolsas y otros utensilios.
- 3Cada uno de los eslabones de que se forma este tejido.
- 4Tejido semejante al de la malla de la red.
- 5En un circuito, cada uno de los lazos que se pueden recorrer sin retroceder y que empiezan y terminan en el mismo nodo.
- 6Vestido de tejido de punto muy fino que usan a veces los actores teatrales o circenses.
- 7Pieza cuadrada similar al fuso, que contiene un espacio vacío de su misma figura.
- 8Prenda usada para disfrutar de un cuerpo acuático; ya sea mar, río o piscina.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amlla,malal,mlala,mmalla
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for malla
Misspelling Variants of "malla"
Frequency rank: #16,899 in Spanish
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