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Definition: Conga |
CongaNoun1. Music composed for dancing the conga. 2. A Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file. Verb1. Dance the conga. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Conga |
| English words defined with "conga": conga line. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Conga" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (conga). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | They Stooge to Conga (1943) Kickin' the Conga Round (1942) La Conga Nights (1940) | |
Song Titles | Conga (performing artist: Miami Sound Machine) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Young Negroes form a conga line as they parade around "sleep-out" demonstrators preparing to spend a second night bedded down on a Selma street late March 11th (1965). Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Conga shoes" by César Ovalle Commentary: "Little Conga shoes." |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Congas with synthesized strings and bass playing with simple guitar melody; conga drums. | | A tenor saxophone solo over a conga and piano jazz accompaniment. |
| Arpeggiated keyboard and repetitive conga style with synthesized bass and strings. | | One conga drum beat. |
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| "Conga" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Conga" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.86% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.14% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "conga": conga drum ♦ conga line. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "conga": conga-line. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "conga"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | conga. (various references) | |
Hungarian | konga. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コロンブスの卵 (Columbus Day, Columbus' egg, computer graphics, conc., concentrated, concert, concert hall, concert master, concertante, concise, conclave, concord, Concorde, concourse, concrete, concrete block, concrete jungle, concrete mixer, concrete pile, concurrent, conglomerate, conglomerate merchant, Congo, congratulations, congress, congress gaiters, conscious, conservation, conservative, conservator, conservatory, consultant, consultant engineer, consulting, consulting sales, consumer, Consumer Interpole, consumering, consumerism, consumers' relation, consumers' research, consumption, contest, CR). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コンガ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ongacay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tambor conga (conga drum), atabaque (bass, conga drum). (various references) | |
Russian | конга, латиноамериканский танец. (various references) | |
Spanish | congas (conga drum). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "conga": congaed, congaing, congas. (additional references) | |
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"Conga" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Caega, canga, Cega, Chongil, Chongo, Choong, Cienega, Cinva, Clonagh, coga, cogan, cogea, cogi, cogn, cogni, cogno, cogu, cohg, cona, Conaf, Conaghan, conam, conay, conbac, confa, congac, congic, congr, congy, Conham, conje, conna, consa, conta, Contax, Conval, Conza, cooga, Coong, Copgo, Cuna, Cung, cunnga, Cuong, konge, kongit, Monga, ponga, Ronga, Shonagh, wonga. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "conga" (pronounced kô"nggu) |
| 3 | -ng g u | malanga. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-n-o" | |
-1 letter: agon. | |
-2 letters: ago, can, cog, con, gan, goa, nag, nog, oca. | |
-3 letters: ag, an, go, na, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-n-o" | |
+1 letter: agonic, cognac, congas, garcon, gascon. | |
+2 letters: acrogen, aglycon, campong, cantdog, clangor, coagent, coaling, coaming, coating, coaxing, cognacs, cognate, coinage, congaed, congeal, crannog, decagon, garcons, gascons, gonadic, guanaco, octagon, organic. | |
+3 letters: acrogens, aglycone, aglycons, agnostic, anagogic, analogic, cajoling, cameoing, campongs, canoeing, cantdogs, caroling, caroming, clangors, clangour, cloaking, coaching, coacting, coagency, coagents, coamings, coapting, coasting, coatings, cognates, coinages, collagen, comaking, comanage, congaing, congeals, congrats, conjugal, contagia, cozenage, crannoge, crannogs, croaking, cyanogen, decagons, geomancy, glucagon, gnomical, golconda, guanacos, gynoecia, locating, logician, octagons, octangle, organics, poaching, roaching, solacing. | |
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