mungo

\mun.ɡo\

/\mun.ɡo\/ noun

The verdict

“mungo” is uncommon French (frequency #80,446 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#80,446
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoffe faite avec des morceaux de laine neufs, mais trop petits pour être employés par le tailleur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-mungo · mungo · French

mungo · rank #80,446 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #80,446
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH mundus

Nearest frequency peer: mundus (-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 « mungo »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mungo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for mungo
PropertyValue
Headwordmungo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\mun.ɡo\
Letters5
Frequency rank#80,446
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « mungo » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mungotombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « mundus » (#80,445), « multipliera » (#80,444), « mujer » (#80,443). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « mungo » est au #80,446. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

mungo is uncommon French at frequency #80,446 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mun.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mungo, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mungo, spelled M-U-N-G-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étoffe faite avec des morceaux de laine neufs, mais trop petits pour être employés par le tailleur.
  2. 2
    Produit obtenu par effilochage de drap de laine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how mungo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Plus tard intervint un autre genre d'effilochage, appelé mungo, provenant des chiffons de draps, des rognures sortant des ateliers de tailleurs ; quand le mungo apparut, les fabricants de Bately ne voulurent pas croire qu'il fût possible de l'utiliser ; mais le manufacturier du Yorkshire qui eut le premier l'idée de cet emploi, répondit avec obstination a…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mungo"?
"mungo" is spelled M-U-N-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is \mun.ɡo\.
What does "mungo" mean?
As a noun, "mungo" means: Étoffe faite avec des morceaux de laine neufs, mais trop petits pour être employés par le tailleur.
How do you pronounce "mungo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mungo" is \mun.ɡo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mungo" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mungo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list