poblano
/pəˈblɑːnəʊ/noun
poblano is a noun meaning “A mild green chile pepper native to Mexico; when dried, the chilis are called anchos or chiles anchos (“wide chilis”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-B-L-A-N-O and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of poblano is poblanos.
What does poblano mean?
noun
- 1
A mild green chile pepper native to Mexico; when dried, the chilis are called anchos or chiles anchos (“wide chilis”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce poblano?
- /pəˈblɑːnəʊ/
- /pəʊˈblɑːnəʊ/
Poblano has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of poblano
- poblanos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is poblano?
Poblano appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does poblano come from?
Borrowed from Spanish poblano.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).