# Crompton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #47,001

## Definitions
1. A surname from Old English.
2. A community in the town of West Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States.

## Etymology
Habitational surname from a settlement in Greater Manchester, from Old English crumbe (“river bend”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Easily confused with
- **Compton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/compton-vs-crompton)

## Common misspellings (13)
`ccrompton`, `cormpton`, `crmopton`, `crommpton`, `crompotn`, `cromppton`, `cromptno`, `cromptonn`, `cromptton`, `cromtpon`, `cropmton`, `crrompton`, `rcompton`

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