Samburu
"samburu" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Samburu” is uncommon English (frequency #83,705 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,705
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.
Corpus desk
Index EN-samburu · Samburu · English
Samburu · rank #83,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,705
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Safar
Nearest frequency peer: Safar (-2 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 “Samburu”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Rydberg
Rydberg
16,302 corpus weight
- sackcloth
sackcloth
16,299 corpus weight
- Safar
Safar
16,298 corpus weight
- Samburu
Samburu
16,296 corpus weight
- sandlot
sandlot
16,293 corpus weight
- sarcophagi
sarcophagi
16,291 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Samburu” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Samburu |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #83,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Samburu” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Samburu is uncommon English at frequency #83,705 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.".
Samburu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From an old Maasai word, saamburr, for the leather bag the Samburu use. The correct English form is Samburu, spelled S-A-M-B-U-R-U.
Definition
- 1A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.
Etymology
From an old Maasai word, saamburr, for the leather bag the Samburu use.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).