mal bicho
The verdict
“mal bicho” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Persona aviesa, de malas intenciones, malvada.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal bicho |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmal ˈβ̞it͡ʃo] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal bicho” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mal bicho is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmal ˈβ̞it͡ʃo]. 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: "Persona aviesa, de malas intenciones, malvada.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal bicho 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 mal bicho, spelled M-A-L- -B-I-C-H-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Persona aviesa, de malas intenciones, malvada.
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Using “mal bicho”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L- -B-I-C-H-O — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmal ˈβ̞it͡ʃo] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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