mal pobre
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
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mal pobre is aSpanishphrase. It means: Dicho de una persona, dada a los lujos y riquezas, poco acostumbrada a situaciones de austeridad, carestía y escasez. Pronounced [ˈmal ˈpoβ̞ɾe].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mal pobre |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈmal ˈpoβ̞ɾe] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for mal pobre is 9 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈmal ˈpoβ̞ɾe]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for mal pobre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 pobre, spelled M-A-L- -P-O-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dicho de una persona, dada a los lujos y riquezas, poco acostumbrada a situaciones de austeridad, carestía y escasez.
- 2Pobre y soberbio, que por soberbia oculta su pobreza y hace alarde de cosas que no son suyas.
- 3Persona pródiga, que malgasta el dinero en cosas innecesarias o por puro capricho.
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