ir de mal en peor

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for ir de mal en peor is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈiɾ ð̞e ˈmal ẽm peˈoɾ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Empeorar una situación o cosa que ya de por sí era mala llegando incluso al grado superlativo (pésimo).".

No misspelling variants are generated for ir de mal en peor in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 ir de mal en peor, spelled I-R- -D-E- -M-A-L- -E-N- -P-E-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.