porcinet
\pɔʁ.si.nɛ\
The verdict
“porcinet” is uncommon French (frequency #89,014 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,014
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cochonnet, petit cochon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porcinet · porcinet · French
porcinet · rank #89,014 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,014
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Poppée
Nearest frequency peer: Poppée (-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 « porcinet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Popincourt
Popincourt
10,989 corpus weight
- Poppée
Poppée
10,988 corpus weight
- porcinet
porcinet
10,987 corpus weight
- Pourim
Pourim
10,986 corpus weight
- pratiquera
pratiquera
10,985 corpus weight
- prednisone
prednisone
10,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « porcinet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porcinet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.si.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #89,014 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porcinet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porcinet is uncommon French at frequency #89,014 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.si.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cochonnet, petit cochon.".
porcinet has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is porcinet, spelled P-O-R-C-I-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Cochonnet, petit cochon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how porcinet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a remporté tous les titres mais il continue à promener son costume rose porcinet dans toutes les foires agricoles de France et de Navarre.
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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