Bongo
[ˈbɔŋɡo]
The verdict
“Bongo” is uncommon German (frequency #62,260 among 5,818 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,260
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - kubanisches Musikinstrument, bestehend aus zwei kleinen Trommeln
Corpus desk
Index DE-bongo · Bongo · German
Bongo · rank #62,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,260
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Bonaventura
Nearest frequency peer: Bonaventura (-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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Bongo“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Bodenbelag
Bodenbelag
37,744 corpus weight
- bohrte
bohrte
37,743 corpus weight
- Bonaventura
Bonaventura
37,742 corpus weight
- Bongo
Bongo
37,741 corpus weight
- boule
boule
37,740 corpus weight
- bpm
bpm
37,739 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Bongo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bongo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbɔŋɡo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Bongo“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Bongo is uncommon German at frequency #62,260 among 5,818 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈbɔŋɡo]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "kubanisches Musikinstrument, bestehend aus zwei kleinen Trommeln".
No misspelling variants are generated for Bongo in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Bongo, spelled B-O-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1kubanisches Musikinstrument, bestehend aus zwei kleinen Trommeln
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bongo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sie spielte die Bongo wie eine Göttin.
„Hier schlägt er kurz die Becken an, dort ertönt ein Wirbel auf den Bongos, mit den Füßen bearbeitet er derweil die Bassdrums und rührt dazu in seinen Trommeln, daß das Auge kaum folgen kann.“
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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