poore
"poore" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“poore” is uncommon English (frequency #84,620 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,620
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of poor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-poore · poore · English
poore · rank #84,620 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,620
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Platteville
Nearest frequency peer: Platteville (-5 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “poore”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- plagiarize
plagiarize
15,388 corpus weight
- Platonism
Platonism
15,387 corpus weight
- Platteville
Platteville
15,386 corpus weight
- poore
poore
15,381 corpus weight
- prang
prang
15,376 corpus weight
- preferment
preferment
15,374 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “poore” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poore |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #84,620 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poore” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
poore is uncommon English at frequency #84,620 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of poor.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poore, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is poore, spelled P-O-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of poor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poore appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Goes the world now, it will with thee goe hard: The fattest Hogs we grease the more with Lard. To him that has, there shall be added more; Who is penurious, he shall still be poore
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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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.