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malintencionado

Spanish, adjective/malintenθjoˈnado/

malintencionado is spelled M-A-L-I-N-T-E-N-C-I-O-N-A-D-O (15 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 65,931st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Malintencionado is a Spanish adjective meaning “ill-intentioned, evil-minded” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Que tiene el objetivo de lastimar, ofender o afectar de alguna manera a alguien”.

What does malintencionado mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    ill-intentioned, evil-minded

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

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Que tiene el objetivo de lastimar, ofender o afectar de alguna manera a alguien.

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 malintencionado

  • malintencionada feminine
  • malintencionados masculine plural
  • malintencionadas feminine plural

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

How do you pronounce malintencionado?

  • /malintenθjoˈnado/
  • [ma.lĩn̪.t̪ẽn̟.θjoˈna.ð̞o]
  • /malintensjoˈnado/

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

English words that translate to malintencionado

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

How common is malintencionado in Spanish?

malintencionado appears about once in every 3 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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