# Borneo vs Burney

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Borneo
*name · IPA /ˈbɔɹnioʊ/ · frequency rank #25,685*
A Pacific island shared by Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; the world’s third largest island.

### Burney
*name · frequency rank #49,808*
A surname from Anglo-Norman.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/borneo-vs-burney