mahogany
/məˈhɑɡəni/noun, adjective
mahogany is spelled M-A-H-O-G-A-N-Y: 8 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mahogany means “The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mahogany is mahoganies.
How many letters and syllables are in mahogany?
| Letters | 8: M-A-H-O-G-A-N-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 19,825th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is mahogany?
Mahogany appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 19,825th 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).
How do you pronounce mahogany?
- UK /məˈhɒɡəni/
- US /məˈhɑɡəni/
Mahogany has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-mahogany.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with mahogany?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mahogany from its last stressed vowel (/ɑɡəni/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of mahogany
- mahoganies plural
- mahoganey
- mahoganee
- mahogeney
- mahogeny
- mohogeny
- mohogeney
- mahagony
- mahagoney
- more mahogany comparative
- most mahogany superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does mahogany mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The valuable wood of any of various tropical American evergreen trees, of the genus Swietenia, mostly used to make furniture.
- 2
Any 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.
- 4
A Cornish drink made from gin and treacle.
William Murdoch […] produced a bottle of port; but I chose mahogany (two parts gin and one part treacle, which Lord Eliot made us at Sir Joshua Reynolds's as a Cornish liquor, but it seems they make it also with brandy, and often add porter
- 5
A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
- 6
colloquialobsoleteA table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.
adjective
- 1
Made of mahogany.
- 2
Having the colour of mahogany; dark reddish-brown.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Mahogany in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | acajou , mahagoni |
| German | Mahagoni , Mahagonibaum |
| Portuguese | mogno, acaju |
| Spanish | caoba |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does mahogany come from?
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.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).