pig farm

noun

"pig-farm" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“pig farm” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A farm where domestic pigs are raised and bred, primarily for food and, sometimes, for their skin.

Corpus desk

Index EN-pig-farm · pig farm · English

pig farm · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for pig farm
PropertyValue
Headwordpig farm
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “pig farm” in English

pig farmranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pig farm is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A farm where domestic pigs are raised and bred, primarily for food and, sometimes, for their skin.".

Zero misspellings are on record for pig farm in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is pig farm, spelled P-I-G- -F-A-R-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    A farm where domestic pigs are raised and bred, primarily for food and, sometimes, for their skin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pig farm appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The dogs were barking over at the pigfarm, the leaftruck was crawling through autumn, lovers were unbuttoning in cellars and what was I up to in that badlit attic?
  2. He reminds me of a soldier I met in Cuba, who sat next to me in the station wagon which took a group of us on tour through a big school for children in Oriente Province. I was not too interested in the pig farm which we were being shown, and stayed in the car to rest, and he remained with me. Like all Cubans, he carried a book on Marxism-Leninism, and whe…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pig farm"?
"pig farm" is spelled P-I-G- -F-A-R-M.
What does "pig farm" mean?
As a noun, "pig farm" means: A farm where domestic pigs are raised and bred, primarily for food and, sometimes, for their skin.
What language does "pig farm" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list