# Biggar

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #48,618

## Definitions
1. A village in Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref SD186662).
2. A town and civil parish of South Lanarkshire council area, Lanarkshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NT045375).
3. A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
4. A rural municipality in western Saskatchewan, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Biggar No. 347.
5. A habitational surname from Old Norse.

## Etymology
Probably from Old Norse bygg (“barley”) + geiri (“gore, triangular plot of land”), or from Old English beow + Old English gāra, same meaning.

## Easily confused with
- **Bihar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/biggar-vs-bihar)
- **Biggs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/biggar-vs-biggs)
- **bigger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/biggar-vs-bigger)
- **bugger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/biggar-vs-bugger)
- **biogas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/biggar-vs-biogas)
- **bigg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bigg-vs-biggar)
- **beggar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beggar-vs-biggar)

## Common misspellings (7)
`bbiggar`, `bgigar`, `bigagr`, `bigar`, `biggarr`, `biggra`, `ibggar`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/biggar