Bhubaneswar
"bhubaneswar" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Bhubaneswar” is uncommon English (frequency #51,566 among 31,241 “B” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,566
- frequency rank, English
- 31,241
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A city, the state capital of Odisha, India.
| 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) |
Where “Bhubaneswar” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Bhubaneswar is uncommon English at frequency #51,566 among 31,241 “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.
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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Using “Bhubaneswar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-H-U-B-A-N-E-S-W-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.