pigs
\pɪɡz\
The verdict
“pigs” is uncommon French (frequency #84,171 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,171
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pig.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pigs · pigs · French
pigs · rank #84,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,171
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pierreries
Nearest frequency peer: pierreries (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pigs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photomontag…
photomontages
15,833 corpus weight
- Picart
Picart
15,832 corpus weight
- pierreries
pierreries
15,831 corpus weight
- pigs
pigs
15,830 corpus weight
- pistol
pistol
15,829 corpus weight
- piétinant
piétinant
15,828 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pigs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pigs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɪɡz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #84,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pigs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pigs is uncommon French at frequency #84,171 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɪɡz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pig.".
pigs has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pigs, spelled P-I-G-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pig.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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