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kunga

noun

kunga is spelled K-U-N-G-A: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kunga means “A kind of equid in ancient Mesopotamia (probably a donkey-onager cross)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kunga is kungas.

How many letters and syllables are in kunga?

Letters5: K-U-N-G-A
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is kunga?

Kunga appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of kunga

  • kungas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does kunga mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A kind of equid in ancient Mesopotamia (probably a donkey-onager cross).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does kunga come from?

Learned borrowing from Sumerian 𒀲𒋙𒀭 (^(anše)kunga₂ /⁠kunga⁠/).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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