Munda
"munda" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Munda” is uncommon English (frequency #88,630 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,630
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.
Corpus desk
Index EN-munda · Munda · English
Munda · rank #88,630 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,630
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 36,575
- PHOTO-FINISH mushroomed
Nearest frequency peer: mushroomed (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Munda”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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moonless
11,378 corpus weight
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11,377 corpus weight
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muang
11,373 corpus weight
- Munda
Munda
11,371 corpus weight
- mushroomed
mushroomed
11,370 corpus weight
- Muzak
Muzak
11,368 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Munda” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Munda |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Munda” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Munda is uncommon English at frequency #88,630 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Munda, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian. The correct English form is Munda, spelled M-U-N-D-A.
Definition
- 1An Austroasiatic language family of central and eastern India and Bangladesh, including the languages of Ho, Mundari, Santali, and others.
Etymology
From a name in Munda, coined by philologist Max Müller to distinguish the family from Dravidian.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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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).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.