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Plural of conga

regular plural

The plural of conga is congas.

Forms of conga

Singularconga /ˈkɒŋɡə/
Pluralcongas
Countablecountable

Congas in a sentence

  • The house band consisted of gigantic guitars, fiddles, trumpets, and accordion, with rhythms provided by a batería including timbales, guiros, and congas.2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 721. From the entry guiro

Meaning of conga

  1. noun A tall, narrow, single-headed Cuban hand drum of African origin.
  2. noun A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain.
  3. verb To dance the conga.

Full definition of conga

Questions about the plural of conga

What is the plural of conga?
The plural of conga is congas.
Is conga countable?
Conga is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: conga (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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