Myanmar
\mjan.maʁ\
The verdict
“Myanmar” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #34,205 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #34,205
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pays d’Asie du Sud-Est ayant une frontière commune avec l’Inde, le Bangladesh, le Laos, la Chine et la Thaïlande.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Myanmar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mjan.maʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #34,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Myanmar” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Myanmar is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mjan.maʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #34,205 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pays d’Asie du Sud-Est ayant une frontière commune avec l’Inde, le Bangladesh, le Laos, la Chine et la Thaïlande.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Myanmar, with forms such as "maynmar", "mmyanmar", and "myamnar". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Myanmar, spelled M-Y-A-N-M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Pays d’Asie du Sud-Est ayant une frontière commune avec l’Inde, le Bangladesh, le Laos, la Chine et la Thaïlande.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: maynmar,mmyanmar,myamnar,myanamr,myanmarr,myanmmar,myanmra,myannmar,mynamar,myyanmar,ymanmar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Myanmar - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Myanmar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-Y-A-N-M-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mjan.maʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French 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.