piggery

noun

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

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.

Corpus desk

Index EN-piggery · piggery · English

piggery · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 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 piggery
PropertyValue
Headwordpiggery
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “piggery” in English

piggerysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

Rare enough to double-check

piggery is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

piggery doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From pig + -ery. The correct English form is piggery, spelled P-I-G-G-E-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.
  2. 2
    Piggish behaviour.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Two heavy pails of swill—meat scraps floating in custard—from the school kitchens to be carried with a friend, Hans Solish, all the way to the piggery.

Etymology

From pig + -ery.

This word in other languages

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 "piggery"?
"piggery" is spelled P-I-G-G-E-R-Y.
What does "piggery" mean?
As a noun, "piggery" means: A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.
What is the origin of the word "piggery"?
From pig + -ery. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list