pauvre comme Job
\povʁ kɔm ʒɔb\
The verdict
“pauvre comme Job” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Très pauvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pauvre-comme-job · pauvre comme Job · French
pauvre comme Job · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pauvre comme Job |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \povʁ kɔm ʒɔb\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pauvre comme Job is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \povʁ kɔm ʒɔb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très pauvre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pauvre comme Job in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pauvre comme Job, spelled P-A-U-V-R-E- -C-O-M-M-E- -J-O-B.
Definition
- 1Très pauvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pauvre comme Job appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vois ton camarade d’école, M. Coffe, chassé comme toi, pauvre comme Job, admis, par grâce d’abord, dans le salon de ta mère ; et cependant de quelle considération ne jouit-il pas parmi ces millionnaires et ces pairs de France ?
Un jeune étudiant, candide, beau, doué d’une âme artiste et passionnée, mais pauvre comme Job, un nommé Maxime, dont nous taisons le nom de famille, lui conta des douceurs et la mit à mal.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.