mamo
/ˈmeɪməʊ/
"mamo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mamo” is uncommon English (frequency #76,097 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,097
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mamo · mamo · English
mamo · rank #76,097 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,097
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH malus
Nearest frequency peer: malus (-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 “mamo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Makepeace
Makepeace
23,909 corpus weight
- Malika
Malika
23,908 corpus weight
- malus
malus
23,905 corpus weight
- mamo
mamo
23,904 corpus weight
- Mandingo
Mandingo
23,902 corpus weight
- marchesa
marchesa
23,899 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mamo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mamo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmeɪməʊ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “mamo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mamo is uncommon English at frequency #76,097 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈmeɪməʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.".
mamo has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hawaiian mamo. The correct English form is mamo, spelled M-A-M-O.
Definition
- 1Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mamo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.
The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hawaiian mamo.
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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