mango
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "mango", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "mango" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "mango" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
mango is aEnglishnoun. It means: A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica. Pronounced /ˈmæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯/. Often confused with mao and many.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mango |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈmæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,757 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for mango is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈmæ̞ŋɡəʊ̯/. Corpus data places it at rank #13,757 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mango, with forms such as "amngo", "magno", and "manggo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mao", "many", "mann", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango Borrowed from Por… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is mango, spelled M-A-N-G-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A tropical Asian fruit tree, Mangifera indica.
- 2The fruit of the mango tree.
- 3A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.
- 4A green bell pepper suitable for pickling.
- 5A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.
- 6Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.
- 7A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.
- 8The breasts.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-South Dravidian *mā Proto-South Dravidian *m Proto-South Dravidian *mām Malayalam മാം (māṁ) Proto-Dravidian *kāy Malayalam കായ (kāya) Malayalam -ങ്ങ (-ṅṅa) Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa)bor. Portuguese mangabor. English mango Borrowed from Portuguese manga, from Malayalam മാങ്ങ (māṅṅa) / Tamil மாங்காய் (māṅkāy), possibly via Malay mangga, ultimately from Proto-South Dravidian *mām-kāy (“unripe mango”), a compound of *mām (“mango tree”) + *kāy (“unripe fruit”). First used for the fruit as early as the 1580s and the tree by the 1670s. The etymology of the -o ending is not certain.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amngo,magno,manggo,manngo,manog,mmango,mnago
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mango
Misspelling Variants of "mango"
Frequency rank: #13,757 in English
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