porcin
\pɔʁ.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“porcin” is uncommon French (frequency #66,240 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,240
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux porcs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porcin · porcin · French
porcin · rank #66,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,240
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pondeuses
Nearest frequency peer: pondeuses (-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 « porcin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- politiser
politiser
33,764 corpus weight
- Polk
Polk
33,763 corpus weight
- pondeuses
pondeuses
33,762 corpus weight
- porcin
porcin
33,761 corpus weight
- poursuivrons
poursuivrons
33,759 corpus weight
- poutrelles
poutrelles
33,758 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « porcin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porcin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porcin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porcin is uncommon French at frequency #66,240 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔʁ.sɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
porcin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is porcin, spelled P-O-R-C-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux porcs.
- 2Qui tient du porc ou des autres porcins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porcin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les discours du sous-préfet et du député gouvernemental doivent rouler surtout sur le calme des champs, sur les progrès de l’agriculture, sur la prospérité des races bovine, ovine et porcine, avec quelques fleurs poétiques çà et là, bien entendu ; mais le discours du député opposant me semble devoir être d’un caractère différent.
Le médecin de Richard, craignant pour son Royal malade l’indigeste lourdeur de cette nourriture porcine, dit à l’un des écuyers de son maître : « — Prends un Sarrasin jeune et gras ; sans délai tue, ouvre et écorche ce bandit, fais-le bouillir avec force sel et épices, ajoutes-y du safran fortement coloré. »
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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