bongo
[ˈbõŋgo]
The verdict
“bongo” has 8 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #44,011. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,011
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,459
- “B” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Embarcación hecha de un tronco hueco que se usaba para la navegación costera entre los mapuches y en Chiloé. Se impulsaba con remos o con una pértiga.
Corpus desk
Index ES-bongo · bongo · Spanish
bongo · rank #44,011 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,011
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,459
- PHOTO-FINISH bombear
Nearest frequency peer: bombear (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “bongo”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- blank
blank
55,994 corpus weight
- bolígrafos
bolígrafos
55,992 corpus weight
- bombear
bombear
55,991 corpus weight
- bongo
bongo
55,990 corpus weight
- bos
bos
55,988 corpus weight
- bosé
bosé
55,987 corpus weight
What this shows “bongo” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bongo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈbõŋgo] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “bongo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around bongo (IPA [ˈbõŋgo]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,011 among 2,459 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Embarcación hecha de un tronco hueco que se usaba para la navegación costera entre los mapuches y en Chiloé. Se impulsaba con remos o con una pértiga.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for bongo, with forms such as "bbongo", "bnogo", and "bogno". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "boo", "bono", "Bonn", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is bongo, spelled B-O-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Embarcación hecha de un tronco hueco que se usaba para la navegación costera entre los mapuches y en Chiloé. Se impulsaba con remos o con una pértiga.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bongo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Haré un bongo de canelo con bayona de ciprés y las aguas del estero desde Compu cruzaré, en ese bongo ligero a la niña iré a traer...
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbongo
- bnogo
- bogno
- bonggo
- bonngo
- bonog
- obngo
- vongo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bongo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).