porkishness
"porkishness" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“porkishness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state or quality of being porkish.
Corpus desk
Index EN-porkishness · porkishness · English
porkishness · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | porkishness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “porkishness” in English
Rare enough to double-check
porkishness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state or quality of being porkish.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for porkishness in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From porkish + -ness. The correct English form is porkishness, spelled P-O-R-K-I-S-H-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1The state or quality of being porkish.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porkishness appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey.
Peter Bowbrick comments that she might have been responding to the porkishness of the word 'hog'.
Etymology
From porkish + -ness.
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.