pobo
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4 characters
Language
Spanish
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pobo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Populus alba) Árbol de la familia de las salicáceas, caducifolio, corpulento, de forma redondeada y rápido crecimiento, de hasta 30 m de altura. El envés de sus hojas tiene una capa densa de pelos... Pronounced [ˈpoβ̞o].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pobo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpoβ̞o] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for pobo is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈpoβ̞o]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pobo 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 pobo, spelled P-O-B-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Populus alba) Árbol de la familia de las salicáceas, caducifolio, corpulento, de forma redondeada y rápido crecimiento, de hasta 30 m de altura. El envés de sus hojas tiene una capa densa de pelos afieltrados de color blanquecino, de donde toma su nombre de álamo blanco.
- 2(Populus nigra) Árbol de la familia de las salicáceas, de hoja caduca, tronco generalmente derecho, de corteza grisácea pronto resquebrajada en sentido longitudinal, formándose entre las grietas unas costillas negruzcas, a lo que alude el nombre que alcanza de 20 a 30 m. Su madera se usa en carpintería; en jardinería es usado como árbol ornamental; en medicina natural, como sudorífico, diurético y expectorante.
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