pogo

\po.ɡo\

/\po.ɡo\/ noun

The verdict

“pogo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#48,112
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Danse et bousculade lors de concerts de rock où tout le monde saute et se pousse les uns contre les autres.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pogo · pogo · French

pogo · rank #48,112 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #48,112
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plugins

Nearest frequency peer: plugins (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pogo »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pogo » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pogo vs pro
50% similar
pogo vs pop
50% similar
pogo vs pot
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pogo
PropertyValue
Headwordpogo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\po.ɡo\
Letters4
Frequency rank#48,112
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pogo »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pogose place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plugins » (#48,111), « Pontivy » (#48,113), « playing » (#48,110). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pogo » est au #48,112. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around pogo (IPA \po.ɡo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,112 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Danse et bousculade lors de concerts de rock où tout le monde saute et se pousse les uns contre les autres.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pogo, with forms such as "opgo", "pgoo", and "poggo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pro", "pop", "pot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pogo, spelled P-O-G-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Danse et bousculade lors de concerts de rock où tout le monde saute et se pousse les uns contre les autres.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Lorsque j’ai donné un coup d’épaule à Claude, il m’en a rendu un si violent que je me suis étalé de tout mon long. Les enfants ont hurlé de rire puis se sont mis à nous imiter. Et la cour du Palais s’est transformée en un gigantesque pogo !
  2. Gazo, nouvelle coqueluche du rap, aux 20 000 albums vendus, a d’abord voulu lancer un pogo, avant de se rétracter pour des raisons de sécurité.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opgo
  • pgoo
  • poggo
  • poog
  • ppogo

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pogo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

opgo2pgoo2poggo1poog2ppogo1
Edit distance from "pogo"

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 "pogo"?
"pogo" is spelled P-O-G-O. The IPA pronunciation is \po.ɡo\.
What does "pogo" mean?
As a noun, "pogo" means: Danse et bousculade lors de concerts de rock où tout le monde saute et se pousse les uns contre les autres.
What words are commonly confused with "pogo"?
"pogo" is commonly confused with "pro", "pop", "pot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pogo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pogo" is \po.ɡo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pogo" come from?
"pogo" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list