porcherie
\pɔʁ.ʃə.ʁi\
The verdict
“porcherie” is uncommon French (frequency #51,669 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,669
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu où on élève des porcs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porcherie · porcherie · French
porcherie · rank #51,669 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,669
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poncho
Nearest frequency peer: poncho (-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 « porcherie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polyéthylène
polyéthylène
48,335 corpus weight
- poncelet
poncelet
48,334 corpus weight
- poncho
poncho
48,333 corpus weight
- porcherie
porcherie
48,332 corpus weight
- postmoderne
postmoderne
48,331 corpus weight
- PPs
PPs
48,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « porcherie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porcherie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.ʃə.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #51,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porcherie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porcherie is uncommon French at frequency #51,669 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.ʃə.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for porcherie in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is porcherie, spelled P-O-R-C-H-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Lieu où on élève des porcs.
- 2Lieu très sale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porcherie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Or, l’honnêteté m’oblige à dire que ces porcheries industrielles sont des lieux abominables, constituant une sorte d’enfer sur Terre pour les animaux qui s’y trouvent.
Sa chambre est une véritable porcherie.
Synonyms
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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