porcher
\pɔʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“porcher” is uncommon French (frequency #51,054 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,054
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui garde les porcs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porcher · porcher · French
porcher · rank #51,054 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,054
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pontons
Nearest frequency peer: pontons (-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 « porcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pollueur
pollueur
48,950 corpus weight
- ponctuées
ponctuées
48,949 corpus weight
- pontons
pontons
48,948 corpus weight
- porcher
porcher
48,947 corpus weight
- portabilité
portabilité
48,946 corpus weight
- positionnant
positionnant
48,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « porcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,054 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porcher is uncommon French at frequency #51,054 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui garde les porcs.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for porcher in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is porcher, spelled P-O-R-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui garde les porcs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jour, il rencontra dans la campagne, à l'écart, un garçon qui menait des pourceaux. Il lui demanda s'ils étaient à vendre et, tandis qu'il discutait du prix, ses varlets égorgetèrent doucement par derrière le pauvre porcher.
... alors ils laisseront les bêtes à d’autres enfants ou au porcher du village...
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); 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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