mallo
Spanish, noun
mallo is spelled M-A-L-L-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 62,142nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mallo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “mallet” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of mallar. With an accent, malló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of mallar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Plato de papas hervidas y condimentadas que acompaña otras comidas”.
What does mallo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemallet
- 2
masculinea kind of game
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of mallar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of mallar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Plato de papas hervidas y condimentadas que acompaña otras comidas.
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 mallo
- mallos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mallo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mallo in Spanish?
mallo appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).