porker
/ˈpɔɹkɚ/noun
porker is spelled P-O-R-K-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, porker means “A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of porker is porkers.
How many letters and syllables are in porker?
| Letters | 6: P-O-R-K-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is porker?
Porker appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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).
How do you pronounce porker?
- UK /ˈpɔːkə/
- US /ˈpɔɹkɚ/
Porker has 2 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: En-au-porker.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with porker?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as porker from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹkəɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of porker
- porkers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does porker mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
- 2
derogatoryslangAn obese person.
- 3
UKslangA lie.
- 4
USderogatoryslangA police officer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does porker come from?
From pork + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).