mal carácter
The verdict
“mal carácter” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Rasgo de la personalidad que consiste en ser irascible, gruñón o cascarrabias.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal carácter |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmal kaˈɾakt̪eɾ] |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mal carácter” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for mal carácter is 12 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmal kaˈɾakt̪eɾ]. 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: "Rasgo de la personalidad que consiste en ser irascible, gruñón o cascarrabias.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mal carácter 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 carácter, spelled M-A-L- -C-A-R-Á-C-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rasgo de la personalidad que consiste en ser irascible, gruñón o cascarrabias.
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Using “mal carácter”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is M-A-L- -C-A-R-Á-C-T-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈmal kaˈɾakt̪eɾ] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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