burma
\buɾ.mɑ\
The verdict
“burma” is uncommon French (frequency #74,628 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,628
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Verge. Anneau sans chaton.
Corpus desk
Index FR-burma · burma · French
burma · rank #74,628 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,628
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bust
Nearest frequency peer: bust (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « burma »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- brossez
brossez
25,378 corpus weight
- brûlons
brûlons
25,375 corpus weight
- burma
burma
25,373 corpus weight
- bust
bust
25,372 corpus weight
- Butterfield
Butterfield
25,371 corpus weight
- calamars
calamars
25,369 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « burma » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | burma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buɾ.mɑ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « burma » en français
Rare enough to double-check
burma is uncommon French at frequency #74,628 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \buɾ.mɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Verge. Anneau sans chaton.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for burma, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is burma, spelled B-U-R-M-A.
Definition
- 1Verge. Anneau sans chaton.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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