porcine
/ˈpoʊɹ.saɪn/
"porcine" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“porcine” is uncommon English (frequency #54,403 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,403
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of, pertaining to, or being a pig.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porcine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈpoʊɹ.saɪn/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,403 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porcine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
porcine is uncommon English at frequency #54,403 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈpoʊɹ.saɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for porcine, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English porcine, partly from Middle French porcin (from Old French [Term?]) and partly from its etymon, Latin porcīnus, from porcus (“pig”). The correct English form is porcine, spelled P-O-R-C-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Of, pertaining to, or being a pig.
- 2Similar to a pig.
- 3Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; severely obese.
Etymology
From Middle English porcine, partly from Middle French porcin (from Old French [Term?]) and partly from its etymon, Latin porcīnus, from porcus (“pig”).
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “porcine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-O-R-C-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.