Samburu
"samburu" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Samburu” is uncommon English (frequency #83,705 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,705
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A member of an ethnic group of semi-nomadic pastoralists of north central Kenya, related to but distinct from the Maasai.
| 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) |
Where “Samburu” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Samburu is uncommon English at frequency #83,705 among 54,294 “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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Using “Samburu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-M-B-U-R-U - 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.