# Covington

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #27,417

## Definitions
1. A village and civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL0570).
2. A hamlet in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9739).
3. An English habitational surname from the village in England.
4. A locale in the United States.
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24. Ellipsis of Covington County.

## Etymology
From Old English Cofingtun, from Cofa (a masculine given name) + -ing (“belonging to”) + -tun (“settlement”, literally “Cofa's town”).

## Common misspellings (14)
`ccovington`, `coivngton`, `covignton`, `covinggton`, `covingotn`, `covingtno`, `covingtonn`, `covingtton`, `covinngton`, `covintgon`, `covnigton`, `covvington`, `cvoington`, `ocvington`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/covington