mungo
\mun.ɡo\
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
- mourvèdre
mourvèdre
19,559 corpus weight
- mujer
mujer
19,558 corpus weight
- multipliera
multipliera
19,557 corpus weight
- mundus
mundus
19,556 corpus weight
- mungo
mungo
19,555 corpus weight
- mylord
mylord
19,552 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mungo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mungo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mun.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mungo » en français
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
- 1Étoffe faite avec des morceaux de laine neufs, mais trop petits pour être employés par le tailleur.
- 2Produit obtenu par effilochage de drap de laine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mungo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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