pauvre en esprit
\povʁ ɑ̃ ɛs.pʁi\
The verdict
“pauvre en esprit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Personne ayant un léger handicap mental.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pauvre-en-esprit · pauvre en esprit · French
pauvre en esprit · 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 en esprit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \povʁ ɑ̃ ɛs.pʁi\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pauvre en esprit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \povʁ ɑ̃ ɛs.pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pauvre en esprit in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 en esprit, spelled P-A-U-V-R-E- -E-N- -E-S-P-R-I-T.
Definition
- 1Personne ayant un léger handicap mental.
- 2(vocabulaire biblique) Personne détachée des biens matériels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pauvre en esprit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heureux les pauvres en esprit, car le royaume des cieux est à eux.
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.