tonga
noun
tonga is spelled T-O-N-G-A: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Tonga, the name). As a noun, tonga means “A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tonga is tongas.
How many letters and syllables are in tonga?
| Letters | 5: T-O-N-G-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is tonga?
Tonga appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Tonga, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce tonga?
Tonga has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with tonga?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tonga.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tango.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of tonga
- tongas plural
- tanga
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tonga mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
IndiaA light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn carriage used for transportation in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
- 2
A drug useful in neuralgia, derived from a Fijian plant supposed to be of the aroid genus Epipremnum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does tonga come from?
From Hindi टाँगा (ṭāṅgā).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).