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Synonyms for piglet

Most common

piggy shoat porkling porklet

All synonyms

Noun

1. Piggy

pig, piggy, shoat

Other

bonham IE, porkling, porklet, hog-babe dated, pigling dated, porket dated

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A young swine, one not yet mature.

    Near-synonyms: shoat, porkling, porklet, porket

Related words

Phrases
moss piglet
Is a kind of
pig swine porcine suidian mammal

Forms

Plural
piglets → pigs, piggies, shoats, bonhams…

Example sentences

  • piggy Sami opened up the piggy bank and took the money.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pigletsteady
piggyrising
shoatsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
pig1
5 letters
piggy2, shoat
6 letters
bonham2, porket
7 letters
porklet, pigling
8 letters
porkling

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (piggy2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
goret
Español
cochinillo
Deutsch
Ferkel
Català
porcell