mal pobre

/[ˈmal ˈpoβ̞ɾe]/ phrase

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9 characters

Language

Spanish

word origin

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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].

Key facts for mal pobre
PropertyValue
Headwordmal pobre
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechPhrase
IPA[ˈmal ˈpoβ̞ɾe]
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

mal pobre is not present in the top-100,000 ranked Spanish corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

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

  1. 1
    Dicho de una persona, dada a los lujos y riquezas, poco acostumbrada a situaciones de austeridad, carestía y escasez.
  2. 2
    Pobre y soberbio, que por soberbia oculta su pobreza y hace alarde de cosas que no son suyas.
  3. 3
    Persona pródiga, que malgasta el dinero en cosas innecesarias o por puro capricho.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mal pobre"?
"mal pobre" is spelled M-A-L- -P-O-B-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [ˈmal ˈpoβ̞ɾe].
What does "mal pobre" mean?
As a phrase, "mal pobre" means: Dicho de una persona, dada a los lujos y riquezas, poco acostumbrada a situaciones de austeridad, carestía y escasez.
How do you pronounce "mal pobre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mal pobre" is [ˈmal ˈpoβ̞ɾe]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mal pobre" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.