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malpais

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables
mal-pais
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Spanish malpaís, from mal (“bad”) + país (“land”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

malpaises (plural) malpaís (alternative)

Questions

What does malpais mean?
Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
Where does malpais come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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