tue-cochon
\ty.kɔ.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“tue-cochon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tradition qui consiste à tuer le cochon directement à la ferme, plutôt que de l’envoyer à l’abattoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tue-cochon · tue-cochon · French
tue-cochon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tue-cochon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ty.kɔ.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tue-cochon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tue-cochon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ty.kɔ.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tradition qui consiste à tuer le cochon directement à la ferme, plutôt que de l’envoyer à l’abattoir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for tue-cochon in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is tue-cochon, spelled T-U-E---C-O-C-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Tradition qui consiste à tuer le cochon directement à la ferme, plutôt que de l’envoyer à l’abattoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tue-cochon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les bâtiments occupant près d’un tiers du village de Jabugo, la tue-cochon commence en janvier pour finir en mars.
Je revois les trois jours de fête quand les hommes ont fait la dernière tue-cochon au village, qu’ils ont égorgé six bêtes coup sur coup dans la semaine, un chaque matin, trois dans le petit bourg et trois dans des fermes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.