milonga
[miˈlõŋga]
The verdict
“milonga” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #38,817. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,817
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3,868
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Género musical folclórico típico de Argentina y Uruguay, de ritmo lento, tono nostálgico, que se canta acompañado de guitarra.
Corpus desk
Index ES-milonga · milonga · Spanish
milonga · rank #38,817 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,817
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,868
- PHOTO-FINISH milanés
Nearest frequency peer: milanés (-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 “milonga”
Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino
- mezcle
mezcle
61,188 corpus weight
- midió
midió
61,187 corpus weight
- mientan
mientan
61,186 corpus weight
- milanés
milanés
61,185 corpus weight
- milonga
milonga
61,184 corpus weight
- minuta
minuta
61,183 corpus weight
What this shows “milonga” 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 | milonga |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [miˈlõŋga] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #38,817 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “milonga”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around milonga (IPA [miˈlõŋga]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,817 among 3,868 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for milonga, with forms such as "imlonga", "millonga", and "milnoga". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "minga", "Milena", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is milonga, spelled M-I-L-O-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Género musical folclórico típico de Argentina y Uruguay, de ritmo lento, tono nostálgico, que se canta acompañado de guitarra.
- 2Engaño, mentira, cuento.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how milonga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El origen de la milonga es muy discutido. Es muy parecida al tango, pero más rapida y menos melancólica.
Vamos, lo de siempre, milonga tras milonga.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- imlonga
- millonga
- milnoga
- milogna
- milonag
- milongga
- milonnga
- miolnga
- mlionga
- mmilonga
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of milonga - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "milonga", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).