Mekong
/ˈmikɔŋ/
"mekong" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mekong” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,827. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,827
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mekong · Mekong · English
Mekong · rank #35,827 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,827
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Melania
Nearest frequency peer: Melania (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Mekong”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- massed
massed
64,178 corpus weight
- Mayflower
Mayflower
64,176 corpus weight
- Mekong
Mekong
64,174 corpus weight
- Melania
Melania
64,173 corpus weight
- melanin
melanin
64,172 corpus weight
- Messina
Messina
64,171 corpus weight
What this shows “Mekong” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mekong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈmikɔŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Mekong”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Mekong (IPA /ˈmikɔŋ/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,827 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mekong, with forms such as "emkong", "mekkong", and "meknog". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Meng", "mong", "melon", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: c. 19th c., from Thai แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong, literally “Mother river”), contracted form of แม่น้ำโขง (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong). The correct English form is Mekong, spelled M-E-K-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1A river in southeastern Asia that flows about 4,183 km (2,600 miles) from Tibet to the South China Sea in Vietnam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mekong appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Mekong River’s lower basin is vast, encompassing parts of Myanmar and Thailand, virtually all of Laos and Cambodia and parts of southern Vietnam, where, after a 3,000-mile journey across five national borders, the mother of rivers divaricates into a complex delta network and drains into the South China Sea. Tonle Sap Lake sits roughly in the middle of…
The Mekong is one of the largest rivers in the world, beginning in China and flowing through Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. Nearly 70 million people in Asia are dependent on its waters for fishing or to irrigate their rice fields.
Etymology
c. 19th c., from Thai แม่โขง (mɛ̂ɛ-kǒong, literally “Mother river”), contracted form of แม่น้ำโขง (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-kǒong).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emkong
- mekkong
- meknog
- mekogn
- mekongg
- mekonng
- meokng
- mkeong
- mmekong
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mekong - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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