bongo

Other forms of bongo

plural

bongoes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bongo

What does bongo mean?

bongo means "a small drum; played with the hands". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bongo?

bongo has 2 syllables: bon-go. The stress falls on "bon". In IPA it is /ˈbɑŋˌɡoʊ/.

What is another word for bongo?

Close synonyms include bongo drum, Tragelaphus eurycerus, Boocercus eurycerus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bongo a common word?

bongo is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bongo?

19 words rhyme with bongo. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.