poor

/pʊə(ɹ)/ (sin la fusión pour–poor)

//pʊə(ɹ)/ (sin la fusión pour–poor)/ adj

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The verdict

“poor” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,760) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#36,760
frequency rank, Spanish
6,028
“P” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pobre.

Corpus desk

Index ES-poor · poor · Spanish

poor · rank #36,760 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,760
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,028
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ponferrada

Nearest frequency peer: Ponferrada (-1 rank slots)

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.

Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “poor”

Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo

corpus weight

What this shows Las barras sitúan “poor” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

poor vs por
75% similar
poor vs pro
50% similar
poor vs pop
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for poor
PropertyValue
Headwordpoor
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechAdjective
IPA/pʊə(ɹ)/ (sin la fusión pour–poor)
Letters4
Frequency rank#36,760
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “poor”

La frecuencia va del puñado de palabras que usamos sin parar (izquierda) a la cola larga que apenas aparece (derecha).poorcae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “Ponferrada” (#36,759), “porn” (#36,761), “portaban” (#36,762). Entre 6,028 lemas con “P”, “poor” va en #36,760. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for poor is neighbouring look-alikes ("por", "pro", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /pʊə(ɹ)/ (sin la fusión pour–poor). Frequency #36,760 among 6,028 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Pobre.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for poor, with forms such as "opor", "poorr", and "ppoor". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "por", "pro", "pop", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is poor, spelled P-O-O-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pobre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how poor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opor
  • poorr
  • ppoor

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poor - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

opor2poorr1ppoor1
Edit distance from "poor"

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poor"?
"poor" is spelled P-O-O-R. The IPA pronunciation is /pʊə(ɹ)/ (sin la fusión pour–poor).
What does "poor" mean?
As an adjective, "poor" means: Pobre.
What words are commonly confused with "poor"?
"poor" is commonly confused with "por", "pro", "pop". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poor"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poor" is /pʊə(ɹ)/ (sin la fusión pour–poor). Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poor" come from?
"poor" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poor", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

porn#36,761path#36,731nine#36,708Sion#36,825

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list