porc
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,274
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
porc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mammifère omnivore très répandu dans le monde, au museau terminé par un groin. Animal domestique qu’on engraisse pour le manger et qui a entre la chair et la peau une graisse qu’on appelle lard. La... Pronounced \pɔʁ\. It ranks #5,274 in French word frequency. Often confused with Pr and pro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for porc is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,274 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for porc, with forms such as "oprc", "pocr", and "porcc". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Pr", "pro", "pré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is porc, spelled P-O-R-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mammifère omnivore très répandu dans le monde, au museau terminé par un groin. Animal domestique qu’on engraisse pour le manger et qui a entre la chair et la peau une graisse qu’on appelle lard. La femelle est la truie. Au sens strict, le porc est un verrat castré.
- 2Viande du porc.
- 3Homme malpropre.
- 4Homme dominé par ses instincts sexuels.
- 5Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il se représente généralement passant. À rapprocher de cochon, sanglier, truie et verrat.
- 6Policier.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oprc,pocr,porcc,porrc,pporc,proc
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for porc
Misspelling Variants of "porc"
Frequency rank: #5,274 in French
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