# mahogany

> English word · Noun · IPA /məˈhɒɡəni/ · frequency rank #19,890

## Definitions
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.
5. A reddish-brown color, like that of mahogany wood.
6. A table made from mahogany wood; a dining table.

## 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.

## Common misspellings (12)
`amhogany`, `mahgoany`, `mahhogany`, `mahoagny`, `mahoganny`, `mahoganyy`, `mahogayn`, `mahoggany`, `mahognay`, `maohgany`, `mhaogany`, `mmahogany`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mahogany