sarong
/səˈɹɒŋ/
"sarong" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sarong” is uncommon English (frequency #69,414 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,414
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sarong |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /səˈɹɒŋ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,414 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sarong” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sarong is uncommon English at frequency #69,414 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /səˈɹɒŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.".
sarong has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Malay sarung. The correct English form is sarong, spelled S-A-R-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in South and Southeast Asia, also in the Pacific islands.
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay sarung.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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 “sarong”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-R-O-N-G - 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.