swine
/swaɪn/noun
swine is spelled S-W-I-N-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, swine means “A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of swine is swines.
How many letters and syllables are in swine?
| Letters | 5: S-W-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.9 times per million words; the 15,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 swine?
Swine appears 2.9 times per million words in written English, the 15,798th 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 swine?
- /swaɪn/
Swine has one syllable (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-us-swine.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with swine?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as swine.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sinew, sewin, wisen.
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 swine
- swines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does swine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A pig, an animal of family Suidae, especially in agricultural contexts.
The Zimmermann farm raises swine for their meat.
- 2
Pig, pork, the meat of pigs.
The Book says don't eat no swine.
- 3
derogatoryA contemptible person, particularly one imbued with negative piglike characteristics, a greedy, lazy, dirty, and/or lecherous person.
Thousands of workers and students screaming "Get out of town, you Nazi swine!" stormed a police barricade here today in an attempt to silence Adolf von Thadden, head of the right-wing National Democratic party.
- 4
derogatoryslangA police officer.
Keep your mouths shut. Don't tell the swine anything.
- 5
derogatoryslangA pain, any thing or task that is difficult, annoying, or unpleasant.
That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
- 6
obsoleterareSynonym of wolffish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Swine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | suido , cerdo, canalla |
| French | porc, vermine, salaud, garce |
| German | Schwein |
| Portuguese | canalha |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does swine come from?
From Middle English swyn, swin; from Old English swīn; from Proto-West Germanic *swīn; from Proto-Germanic *swīną; from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).