bongo
/ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/
"bongo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bongo” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #33,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,958
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bongo · bongo · English
bongo · rank #33,958 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,958
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bootstrap
Nearest frequency peer: bootstrap (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bongo”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- blazed
blazed
66,047 corpus weight
- Blum
Blum
66,045 corpus weight
- bongo
bongo
66,043 corpus weight
- bootstrap
bootstrap
66,042 corpus weight
- Boswell
Boswell
66,041 corpus weight
- Bouchard
Bouchard
66,040 corpus weight
What this shows “bongo” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bongo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #33,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bongo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around bongo (IPA /ˈbɒŋ.ɡəʊ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,958 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for bongo, with forms such as "bbongo", "bnogo", and "bogno". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boo", "borg", "bony", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Spanish bongo. The correct English form is bongo, spelled B-O-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1A striped bovine mammal found in Africa, Tragelaphus eurycerus.
Etymology
From Spanish bongo.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbongo
- bnogo
- bogno
- bonggo
- bonngo
- bonog
- obngo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bongo - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).