pork

Other forms of pork

plural

porks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pork

What does pork mean?

pork means "meat from a domestic hog or pig". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pork?

pork has 1 syllable: pork. In IPA it is /ˈpɔɹk/.

What is another word for pork?

Close synonyms include porc, pork barrel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pork a common word?

pork is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.