conga
\kɔ̃.ɡa\
The verdict
“conga” is uncommon French (frequency #73,848 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,848
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse qui consiste en trois pas de côté avant de lever un pied et de repartir dans l’autre sens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-conga · conga · French
conga · rank #73,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,848
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH confiseur
Nearest frequency peer: confiseur (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « conga »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- comparais
comparais
26,156 corpus weight
- comprirent
comprirent
26,155 corpus weight
- confiseur
confiseur
26,154 corpus weight
- conga
conga
26,153 corpus weight
- consentemen…
consentements
26,152 corpus weight
- consentit
consentit
26,151 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « conga » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « conga » en français
Rare enough to double-check
conga is uncommon French at frequency #73,848 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔ̃.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for conga in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is conga, spelled C-O-N-G-A.
Definition
- 1Danse qui consiste en trois pas de côté avant de lever un pied et de repartir dans l’autre sens.
- 2Genre musical créé par les esclaves cubains en 1550 basé sur un rythme binaire (2/2 2/4).
- 3Percussion en forme de tambour à une membrane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how conga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Michael Ignatieff a dansé la conga avec une « volontaire » devant les bureaux de MuchMusic à Toronto le mois dernier.
C’était un tube d’Ibrahim Ferrer dans lequel les trompettes vrombissaient au-dessus d’une coulée parfaite de claves, de congas et de tres.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).