# Boston

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈbɔstən/ · frequency rank #2,147

## Definitions
1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
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20. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
21. A town in South Australia.
22. A municipality of the Philippines.
23. A village in County Clare, Ireland.
24. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
25. A settlement in Belize.
26. A settlement in Suriname.
27. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
28. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
29. A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.

## Etymology
The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.

## Easily confused with
- **Botox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-botox)
- **bottom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-bottom)
- **button** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-button)
- **Burton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-burton)
- **Breton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-breton)
- **Buxton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-buxton)
- **Briton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-briton)
- **Boulton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-boulton)
- **Boynton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boston-vs-boynton)
- **boon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boon-vs-boston)
- **baton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baton-vs-boston)
- **bison** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bison-vs-boston)
- **bosom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosom-vs-boston)
- **boron** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boron-vs-boston)
- **Bosco** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bosco-vs-boston)
- **boson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/boson-vs-boston)
- **Bolton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bolton-vs-boston)
- **Barton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/barton-vs-boston)
- **Benton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/benton-vs-boston)
- **bestow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bestow-vs-boston)

## Common misspellings (9)
`bboston`, `bosotn`, `bosston`, `bostno`, `bostonn`, `bostton`, `botson`, `bsoton`, `obston`

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