Goma
"goma" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Goma” is uncommon English (frequency #60,834 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,834
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The capital city of the North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Corpus desk
Index EN-goma · Goma · English
Goma · rank #60,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,834
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Godiva
Nearest frequency peer: Godiva (-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 “Goma”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- gizzard
gizzard
39,170 corpus weight
- Godiva
Godiva
39,168 corpus weight
- Goma
Goma
39,167 corpus weight
- Goodson
Goodson
39,166 corpus weight
- gratz
gratz
39,165 corpus weight
- grindstone
grindstone
39,163 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Goma” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Goma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Goma” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Goma is uncommon English at frequency #60,834 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Goma has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Goma, spelled G-O-M-A.
Definition
- 1The capital city of the North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2A surname.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Goma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
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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