farrowing
adjective, noun, verb
farrowing is an adjective meaning “Producing a litter of piglets” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-R-O-W-I-N-G and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 34 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does farrowing mean?
adjective
- 1
Producing a litter of piglets.
noun
- 1
The act of producing a litter of pigs.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of farrow
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farrowing?
- US
Farrowing has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-farrowing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of farrowing
- farrowings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farrowing?
Farrowing appears about once in every 34 million words in written English, the 178,202nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).