mungo
"mungo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mungo” is uncommon English (frequency #56,929 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,929
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index EN-mungo · mungo · English
mungo · rank #56,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,929
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH munition
Nearest frequency peer: munition (+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 “mungo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- morose
morose
43,080 corpus weight
- mukhtar
mukhtar
43,076 corpus weight
- multilayer
multilayer
43,075 corpus weight
- mungo
mungo
43,072 corpus weight
- munition
munition
43,071 corpus weight
- Newquay
Newquay
43,065 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “mungo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “mungo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
mungo is uncommon English at frequency #56,929 among 4,057 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mungo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tailors' clippings and remnants of fine woollen goods, such as broadcloth, etc., are devilled and spun into yarn for making cloth of nicer quality, called mungo.
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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