Spelling
Burdon or burden?
Burden is the right spelling. Burdon is a common misspelling of it.
BURDON has O where BURDEN has E.
Why people write BURDON
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
Find a related word where that syllable is stressed, and the vowel becomes clear: definite has finite in it, and grammar goes with grammatical.
How often BURDEN is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), BURDON appears 15 times for every 1,000 BURDEN, about once for every 67 correct uses.
Is BURDON a word?
No. BURDON is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. BURDEN is in all three and scores 9 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What burden means
noun: An onerous or difficult concern.
For example: "the burden of responsibility"
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The wrong vowel:
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