conga
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,817
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
conga is aSpanishnoun. It means: Danza popular cubana, con influencias africanas, que se ejecuta por grupos en dos filas y al ritmo de un tambor. Pronounced [ˈkõŋga]. Often confused with cosa and Copa.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈkõŋga] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #41,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for conga is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈkõŋga]. Corpus data places it at rank #41,817 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for conga, with forms such as "cconga", "cnoga", and "cogna". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cosa", "Copa", "coño", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is conga, spelled C-O-N-G-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Danza popular cubana, con influencias africanas, que se ejecuta por grupos en dos filas y al ritmo de un tambor.
- 2Instrumento musical de percusión membranófono que se usa para la conga y también para otros géneros, que fue desarrollado en Cuba.
- 3Especie de hormiga grande y venenosa.
- 4Hutía mayor que la rata, pues tiene media vara de largo, y color ceniciento o rojizo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: cconga,cnoga,cogna,conag,congga,connga,ocnga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for conga
Misspelling Variants of "conga"
Frequency rank: #41,817 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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