Kongo
\kɔn.ɡo\
The verdict
“Kongo” is uncommon French (frequency #51,566 among 737 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,566
- frequency rank, French
- 737
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de Congo.
Corpus desk
Index FR-kongo · Kongo · French
Kongo · rank #51,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,566
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 737
- PHOTO-FINISH klaxonne
Nearest frequency peer: klaxonne (-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 « Kongo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- kidnappe
kidnappe
48,438 corpus weight
- Kimmel
Kimmel
48,437 corpus weight
- klaxonne
klaxonne
48,436 corpus weight
- Kongo
Kongo
48,435 corpus weight
- Krasnodar
Krasnodar
48,434 corpus weight
- lacrymo
lacrymo
48,433 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Kongo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kongo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔn.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Kongo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Kongo is uncommon French at frequency #51,566 among 737 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kɔn.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de Congo.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kongo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Kongo, spelled K-O-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Variante de Congo.
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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