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maleducado

Spanish, adjective/maleduˈkado/

maleducado is spelled M-A-L-E-D-U-C-A-D-O (10 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 34,480th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Maleducado is a Spanish adjective meaning “bad-mannered, ill-mannered, rude” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of maleducar. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que no sabe comportarse con decoro, que infringe las normas básicas de etiqueta, urbanidad y buenas maneras”.

What does maleducado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    bad-mannered, ill-mannered, rude

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of maleducar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Participio de maleducar.

adjective: 1. Que no sabe comportarse con decoro, que infringe las normas básicas de etiqueta, urbanidad y buenas maneras.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of maleducado

  • maleducada feminine
  • maleducados masculine plural
  • maleducadas feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce maleducado?

  • /maleduˈkado/
  • [ma.le.ð̞uˈka.ð̞o]
  • [maleð̞uˈkað̞o]

Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to maleducado

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is maleducado in Spanish?

maleducado appears 1.0 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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