Srebrenica
/ˌsɹɛbɹəˈniːtsə/
"srebrenica" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Srebrenica” is uncommon English (frequency #57,092 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,092
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town and municipality in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing massacre in July 1995.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Srebrenica |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌsɹɛbɹəˈniːtsə/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Srebrenica” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Srebrenica is uncommon English at frequency #57,092 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌsɹɛbɹəˈniːtsə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town and municipality in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing massacre in July 1995.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Srebrenica in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Serbo-Croatian Srȅbrenica. The correct English form is Srebrenica, spelled S-R-E-B-R-E-N-I-C-A.
Definition
- 1A town and municipality in the easternmost part of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing massacre in July 1995.
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian Srȅbrenica.
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 “Srebrenica”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-R-E-B-R-E-N-I-C-A - 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.