swineherd
/ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd/
"swineherd" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swineherd” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).
Corpus desk
Index EN-swineherd · swineherd · English
swineherd · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | swineherd |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “swineherd” in English
Rare enough to double-check
swineherd is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈswaɪnˌhɜːd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).".
Zero misspellings are on record for swineherd in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English swynherde, from Old English swīnhierde. Cognate with German Schweinehirt. The correct English form is swineherd, spelled S-W-I-N-E-H-E-R-D.
Definition
- 1A person who herds and tends swine, a keeper of swine (pigs).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how swineherd appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?
Etymology
From Middle English swynherde, from Old English swīnhierde. Cognate with German Schweinehirt.
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.