maloca
Spanish, noun/maˈloka/
maloca is spelled M-A-L-O-C-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish, the 118,609th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maloca is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “maloca (a type of house used by the indigenous people of the Amazon)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Asalto sorpresivo a poblados y casas, usualmente con fines de pillaje. Era practicado tanto por los mapuches…”.
What does maloca mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemaloca (a type of house used by the indigenous people of the Amazon)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Asalto sorpresivo a poblados y casas, usualmente con fines de pillaje. Era practicado tanto por los mapuches y pueblos afines como por los españoles, en cuyo caso también se denominaba "campeada".
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 maloca
- malocas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce maloca?
- /maˈloka/
- [maˈlo.ka]
- [maˈloka]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is maloca in Spanish?
maloca appears about once in every 10 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).