The suffix "let" means small. Young pigs, for their small size, are thus called piglets.
== == Piglett....or Sucker
A pig that is young and is a female is called a pig.
A young elephant is a calf, and a young pig is a piglet.
a young or new-born pig is called a piglet.
a pig. when a pig has a baby it is called a piglet
A young male pig that has not reached sexual maturity is a shoat.
Piglet
Boar
Baby pigs are piglets.
A cut shoat is a barrow.
A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suida
A mature female pig is called a sow, a young pig that has not given birth or has yet to reach maturity is called a gilt.
a female pig is called a 'sow' While an adult female pig is called a 'sow', that term is not applied until adulthood. All baby female pig is a 'gilt'.