Mangalore
"mangalore" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mangalore” is uncommon English (frequency #58,829 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,829
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Karnataka, south-western India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mangalore · Mangalore · English
Mangalore · rank #58,829 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,829
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH malarkey
Nearest frequency peer: malarkey (-2 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 “Mangalore”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- malarkey
malarkey
41,174 corpus weight
- Mangalore
Mangalore
41,172 corpus weight
- Maren
Maren
41,170 corpus weight
- Margaery
Margaery
41,169 corpus weight
- marsupial
marsupial
41,168 corpus weight
- Masahiro
Masahiro
41,167 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Mangalore” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mangalore |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,829 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Mangalore” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Mangalore is uncommon English at frequency #58,829 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Mangalore in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Kannada ಮಂಗಳೂರು (maṅgaḷūru). Named after Hinduism deity Mangaladevi. The correct English form is Mangalore, spelled M-A-N-G-A-L-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1A city in Karnataka, south-western India.
- 2A town in the Shire of Strathbogie and the Shire of Mitchell, central Victoria, Australia.
- 3A rural locality in Brighton council area and Southern Midlands council area, south-east Tasmania, Australia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Kannada ಮಂಗಳೂರು (maṅgaḷūru). Named after Hinduism deity Mangaladevi.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).