mungo
"mungo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mungo” is uncommon English (frequency #56,929 among 36,575 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,929
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mungo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mungo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mungo is uncommon English at frequency #56,929 among 36,575 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished...".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mungo, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is mungo, spelled M-U-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woollen rags or the remnants of woollen goods, specifically those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woollen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woollen goods or worsted.
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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Using “mungo”
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- The one correct English spelling is M-U-N-G-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.