Maung
"maung" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Maung” is uncommon English (frequency #79,740 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,740
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-maung · Maung · English
Maung · rank #79,740 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,740
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mauritian
Nearest frequency peer: Mauritian (+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 “Maung”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Maritza
Maritza
20,265 corpus weight
- Maronite
Maronite
20,264 corpus weight
- Maryhill
Maryhill
20,263 corpus weight
- Maung
Maung
20,261 corpus weight
- Mauritian
Mauritian
20,260 corpus weight
- McCallister
McCallister
20,258 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Maung” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maung |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,740 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Maung” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Maung is uncommon English at frequency #79,740 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A surname.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Maung, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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: Borrowing from Burmese မောင် (maung). The correct English form is Maung, spelled M-A-U-N-G.
Definition
- 1A surname.
Etymology
Borrowing from Burmese မောင် (maung).
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).