# Calhoun

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #21,464

## Definitions
1. A surname from Irish or Scottish.
2. A city, the county seat of Gordon County, Georgia.
3. A village in Richland County, Illinois.
4. A ghost town in Cheyenne County, Kansas.
5. A home rule city, the county seat of McLean County, Kentucky.
6. A census-designated place in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.
7. A tiny city in Henry County, Missouri.
8. The former name of a city in South Carolina, known since 1943 as Clemson.
9. A town in McMinn County, Tennessee.
10. An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia.
11. A neighborhood of New Berlin, Wisconsin.
12. Calhoun College.
13. Ellipsis of Calhoun County.

## Etymology
Common anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Colquhoun.

## Easily confused with
- **callous** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/calhoun-vs-callous)

## Common misspellings (10)
`aclhoun`, `cahloun`, `calhhoun`, `calhonu`, `calhounn`, `calhuon`, `callhoun`, `calohun`, `ccalhoun`, `clahoun`

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