Burundi
[buˈɾũn̪d̪i]
The verdict
“Burundi” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #33,462 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #33,462
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - País ubicado en el oriente de África, de pequeña extensión y sin litoral. Limita al norte con Ruanda, al oeste con la República Democrática del Congo y al sur y el este con Tanzania.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Burundi |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [buˈɾũn̪d̪i] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #33,462 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Burundi” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Burundi is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [buˈɾũn̪d̪i]. Corpus data places it at rank #33,462 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País ubicado en el oriente de África, de pequeña extensión y sin litoral. Limita al norte con Ruanda, al oeste con la República Democrática del Congo y al sur y el este con Tanzania.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Burundi, with forms such as "bburundi", "bruundi", and "burnudi". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is Burundi, spelled B-U-R-U-N-D-I.
Definition
- 1País ubicado en el oriente de África, de pequeña extensión y sin litoral. Limita al norte con Ruanda, al oeste con la República Democrática del Congo y al sur y el este con Tanzania.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bburundi,bruundi,burnudi,burrundi,burudni,burunddi,burunid,burunndi,buurndi,ubrundi,vurundi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Burundi - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Burundi”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-U-R-U-N-D-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [buˈɾũn̪d̪i] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.