malsano
[malˈsano]
The verdict
“malsano” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #85,972 among 3,868 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,972
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que es perjudicial para la salud.
Corpus desk
Index ES-malsano · malsano · Spanish
malsano · rank #85,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,972
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH malinterpreta
Nearest frequency peer: malinterpreta (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “malsano”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- majada
majada
14,033 corpus weight
- malinterpre…
malinterpreta
14,030 corpus weight
- malsano
malsano
14,029 corpus weight
- mamografía
mamografía
14,028 corpus weight
- maniqueísmo
maniqueísmo
14,026 corpus weight
- maquinar
maquinar
14,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “malsano” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malsano |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [malˈsano] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “malsano” en español
Rare enough to double-check
malsano is uncommon Spanish at frequency #85,972 among 3,868 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [malˈsano]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for malsano in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is malsano, spelled M-A-L-S-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Que es perjudicial para la salud.
- 2Que deteriora la moral.
- 3Que tiene una salud deteriorada.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how malsano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pero también tenia hambre, un hambre punzante y malsana. Debía de llevar veinticuatro horas sin comer, o tal vez fuesen treinta y seis.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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