# farrow

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈfæɹəʊ/ · frequency rank #31,554

## Definitions
1. A litter of piglets.

## Etymology
From Middle English *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (“piglet”), from Proto-West Germanic *farh, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).
See also Old High German farah, Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Avestan: 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (pər^əsa). Doublet of pork.

## Easily confused with
- **furrow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farrow-vs-furrow)
- **Farr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farr-vs-farrow)
- **faro** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faro-vs-farrow)
- **Fargo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fargo-vs-farrow)
- **Faroe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faroe-vs-farrow)
- **Farrar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farrar-vs-farrow)
- **Farrah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/farrah-vs-farrow)
- **fallow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fallow-vs-farrow)

## Common misspellings (7)
`afrrow`, `farorw`, `farow`, `farroww`, `farrwo`, `ffarrow`, `frarow`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/farrow