Bhubaneswar
"bhubaneswar" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bhubaneswar” is uncommon English (frequency #51,566 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,566
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the state capital of Odisha, India.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bhubaneswar · Bhubaneswar · English
Bhubaneswar · rank #51,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,566
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bexley
Nearest frequency peer: Bexley (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Bhubaneswar”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- beautificat…
beautification
48,439 corpus weight
- belladonna
belladonna
48,438 corpus weight
- Bellas
Bellas
48,437 corpus weight
- Bexley
Bexley
48,436 corpus weight
- Bhubaneswar
Bhubaneswar
48,435 corpus weight
- biochemist
biochemist
48,434 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Bhubaneswar” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Bhubaneswar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Bhubaneswar” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Bhubaneswar is uncommon English at frequency #51,566 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the state capital of Odisha, India.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Bhubaneswar, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Odia ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର (bhubaneśwara). The correct English form is Bhubaneswar, spelled B-H-U-B-A-N-E-S-W-A-R.
Definition
- 1A city, the state capital of Odisha, India.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Bhubaneswar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sarala Das of the time of Baja Kapilendra Deva, who flourished in the 16th century A.D., sets down Bhubaneswar as the northern limit of Oḍra or Orissa, in his Oriya Mahabharat. Even the poet Dina Kṛṣṇa Das of the 16th century makes Puri alone identical with Orissa.
The recorded history of Orissa begins practically from Ashoka who renounced war as a state policy on the battle field near about the present Bhubaneswar after he had won the battle.
Etymology
From Odia ଭୁବନେଶ୍ୱର (bhubaneśwara).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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