hungry as a hog
"hungry-as-a-hog" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hungry as a hog” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very hungry
Corpus desk
Index EN-hungry-as-a-hog · hungry as a hog · English
hungry as a hog · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 | hungry as a hog |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hungry as a hog” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hungry as a hog is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Very hungry".
hungry as a hog has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hungry as a hog, spelled H-U-N-G-R-Y- -A-S- -A- -H-O-G.
Definition
- 1Very hungry
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hungry as a hog appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Well, I asked for something to eat I’m hungry as a hog So I get brown rice, seaweed And a dirty hot dog
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.