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Limbu

noun

Limbu is spelled L-I-M-B-U: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Limbu means “A member of a tribal people of Nepal (and to a lesser extent India and Bhutan)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Limbu is Limbus.

How many letters and syllables are in Limbu?

Letters5: L-I-M-B-U
In writingabout once in every 40 million words; the 194,306th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Limbu?

Limbu appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of Limbu

  • Limbus plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does Limbu mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A member of a tribal people of Nepal (and to a lesser extent India and Bhutan).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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