povre
\pɔ.vrə\
The verdict
“povre” is uncommon French (frequency #87,965 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,965
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pauvre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-povre · povre · French
povre · rank #87,965 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,965
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH potagère
Nearest frequency peer: potagère (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « povre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- postillons
postillons
12,038 corpus weight
- potagère
potagère
12,037 corpus weight
- povre
povre
12,036 corpus weight
- Presbourg
Presbourg
12,034 corpus weight
- pressentant
pressentant
12,033 corpus weight
- pressurage
pressurage
12,032 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « povre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | povre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.vrə\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,965 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « povre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
povre is uncommon French at frequency #87,965 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.vrə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pauvre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for povre, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is povre, spelled P-O-V-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pauvre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how povre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Li un povre, l'autre manant
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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