Mombasa
"mombasa" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Mombasa” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,087. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,087
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A large coastal city in Kenya, the second-largest city in Kenya.
Corpus desk
Index EN-mombasa · Mombasa · English
Mombasa · rank #32,087 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,087
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Mogadishu
Nearest frequency peer: Mogadishu (-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 “Mombasa”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Minogue
Minogue
67,917 corpus weight
- Misha
Misha
67,916 corpus weight
- Mogadishu
Mogadishu
67,915 corpus weight
- Mombasa
Mombasa
67,914 corpus weight
- Monash
Monash
67,913 corpus weight
- Monika
Monika
67,912 corpus weight
What this shows “Mombasa” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mombasa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #32,087 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Mombasa”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Mombasa, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,087 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mombasa, with forms such as "mmobasa", "mmombasa", and "mobmasa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Swahili Mombasa. The correct English form is Mombasa, spelled M-O-M-B-A-S-A.
Definition
- 1A large coastal city in Kenya, the second-largest city in Kenya.
- 2A county of Kenya.
Etymology
From Swahili Mombasa.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- mmobasa
- mmombasa
- mobmasa
- momabsa
- mombaas
- mombassa
- mombbasa
- mombsaa
- mommbasa
- ommbasa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mombasa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mombasa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).