mal carácter

/[ˈmal kaˈɾakt̪eɾ]/ phrase

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.

Key facts for mal carácter
PropertyValue
Headwordmal carácter
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈmal kaˈɾakt̪eɾ]
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “mal carácter” sits in Spanish frequency

mal carácter falls outside the top-100,000 ranked Spanish words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Rasgo de la personalidad que consiste en ser irascible, gruñón o cascarrabias.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mal carácter"?
"mal carácter" is spelled M-A-L- -C-A-R-Á-C-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmal kaˈɾakt̪eɾ].
What does "mal carácter" mean?
As a phrase, "mal carácter" means: Rasgo de la personalidad que consiste en ser irascible, gruñón o cascarrabias.
How do you pronounce "mal carácter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mal carácter" is [ˈmal kaˈɾakt̪eɾ]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mal carácter" come from?
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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.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.