Burma
/ˈbɝmə/
"burma" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Burma” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,474
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.
Corpus desk
Index EN-burma · Burma · English
Burma · rank #13,474 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,474
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH brushed
Nearest frequency peer: brushed (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Burma”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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Bosnia
86,531 corpus weight
- brightness
brightness
86,530 corpus weight
- brushed
brushed
86,528 corpus weight
- Burma
Burma
86,527 corpus weight
- calculating
calculating
86,526 corpus weight
- cartridge
cartridge
86,524 corpus weight
What this shows “Burma” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Burma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈbɝmə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Burma”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Burma (IPA /ˈbɝmə/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,474 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Burma, with forms such as "bburma", "bruma", and "bumra". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "burn", "bury", "Burt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed, initially into British English, from Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma); see Myanmar for more. Like in the word Myanmar, the r was not originally pronounced (and is not present in the Burmese term), it is a vowel-lengthening d… The correct English form is Burma, spelled B-U-R-M-A.
Definition
- 1A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Burma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The province of Yunnan lies in the extreme southwest of the Empire, its southern and western borders forming the northern frontiers of Tongking and Burma respectively. On the north it is bordered by Szechuan, and on the east by Kweichau and Kwangsi. It is the third largest province of the Empire, its area measuring 122,000 square miles, but, as elsewhere…
Etymology
Borrowed, initially into British English, from Burmese ဗမာ (ba.ma), colloquial form of မြန်မာ (mranma); see Myanmar for more. Like in the word Myanmar, the r was not originally pronounced (and is not present in the Burmese term), it is a vowel-lengthening device used by non-rhotic (British) dialects; compare gorm.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bburma
- bruma
- bumra
- buram
- burmma
- burrma
- ubrma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Burma - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).