conger
/ˈkɒŋɡə(ɹ)/
"conger" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“conger” is uncommon English (frequency #50,435 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,435
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
Corpus desk
Index EN-conger · conger · English
conger · rank #50,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,435
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH Colossians
Nearest frequency peer: Colossians (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “conger”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- colloquium
colloquium
49,568 corpus weight
- Colossians
Colossians
49,567 corpus weight
- conger
conger
49,566 corpus weight
- coniferous
coniferous
49,565 corpus weight
- copulation
copulation
49,563 corpus weight
- coq
coq
49,562 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “conger” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conger |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒŋɡə(ɹ)/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “conger” in English
Rare enough to double-check
conger is uncommon English at frequency #50,435 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɒŋɡə(ɹ)/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for conger in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English congre, from Old French congre, from Latin conger, from Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”). The correct English form is conger, spelled C-O-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Any of several scaleless marine eels, of the genus Conger, found in coastal waters
- 2A chain of booksellers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how conger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
Etymology
From Middle English congre, from Old French congre, from Latin conger, from Ancient Greek γόγγρος (góngros), from Proto-Indo-European *geng-, *gong- (“a lump, rounded object”).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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