mahogany
/məˈhɒɡəni/
"mahogany" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mahogany” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,890
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mahogany · mahogany · English
mahogany · rank #19,890 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,890
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Louisa
Nearest frequency peer: Louisa (-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 “mahogany”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- looming
looming
80,114 corpus weight
- lordship
lordship
80,113 corpus weight
- Louisa
Louisa
80,112 corpus weight
- mahogany
mahogany
80,111 corpus weight
- malfunction
malfunction
80,110 corpus weight
- mana
mana
80,109 corpus weight
What this shows “mahogany” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mahogany |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /məˈhɒɡəni/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,890 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “mahogany”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around mahogany (IPA /məˈhɒɡəni/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,890 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for mahogany, with forms such as "amhogany", "mahgoany", and "mahhogany". 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 is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words. alternative etymologies Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often… The correct English form is mahogany, spelled M-A-H-O-G-A-N-Y.
Definition
- 1The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
- 2Any of the trees from which such wood comes.
- 3(by extension) Any of various kinds of trees, the timber of which resembles that of trees the genus Swietenia.
- 4A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
- 5A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
- 6A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mahogany appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away[…].
In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).
Etymology
A word of unknown origin, concocted in either English or Middle Dutch from one or more exotic phytonyms and common European words. alternative etymologies Alternatively from Portuguese mogano, mógono, obsolete forms of mogno, itself of unknown origin (often suggested to be from the English word instead of the reverse), perhaps from an extinct indigenous language, such as a Mayan language originally spoken in Honduras or a South American language, but no known cognates survive. Another theory attempts to link Yoruba moganwo (“trees”, literally “tall ones”), but this has been criticized.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amhogany
- mahgoany
- mahhogany
- mahoagny
- mahoganny
- mahoganyy
- mahogayn
- mahoggany
- mahognay
- maohgany
- mhaogany
- mmahogany
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mahogany - 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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