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mango

man·goUK /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/noun, verb

mango is spelled M-A-N-G-O: 5 letters and 2 syllables (man·go). It appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Mango, the name). As a noun, mango means “Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mango is mangoes or mangos.

How many letters and syllables are in mango?

Letters5: M-A-N-G-O
Syllables2: man·go
In writing3.6 times per million words; the 13,695th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is mango?

Mango appears 3.6 times per million words in written English, the 13,695th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Mango, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce mango?

  • UK /ˈmæŋɡəʊ/
  • British /ˈmaŋɡəw/
  • /ˈmæŋɡoʊ/

Mango has 2 syllables, split man·go in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-mango.ogg, En-au-mango.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with mango

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

manga vs mango0 B

Also written: manga.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with mango?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as mango from its last stressed vowel (/æŋɡəʊ/, British pronunciation):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: among, ngoma.

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 mango

  • mangoes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • mangos plural
  • mangoing participle, present
  • mangoed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mango mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of species Mangifera indica of tropical Asian fruit trees.

  2. 2

    Fruit of the mango tree.

    And I have one [bezoar] form'd round the Stone of that great Plum, which comes pickled from thence, and is called Mango.

  3. 3

    A pickled vegetable or fruit with a spicy stuffing; a vegetable or fruit which has been mangoed.

  4. 4

    USdatedA green bell pepper suitable for pickling.

  5. 5

    A type of muskmelon, Cucumis melo.

  6. 6

    Any of various hummingbirds of the genus Anthracothorax.

  7. 7

    A yellow-orange color, like that of mango flesh.

  8. 8

    slangThe breasts.

verb

  1. 1

    To stuff and pickle (a fruit).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Mango in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmanguier (tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica), mangue (fruit), mango (hummingbird of the genus Anthracothorax)
GermanMangobaum (tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica), Mango (fruit)
Portuguesemangueira (tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica), manga (fruit)
Spanishárbol de mango (tropical fruit tree Mangifera indica), mango, manga, mangó (fruit)

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 mango come from?

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.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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