# England

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈɪŋɡ.lənd/ · frequency rank #784

## Definitions
1. The largest and most populous constituent country of the United Kingdom; established in southern Britain by Aethelstan of Wessex in 927.
2. The territory of the Angles and (later) Anglo-Saxons in Britain at any given time before the founding of the Kingdom of England, or the territory of the English people at any given time, in either the Kingdom of England or the United Kingdom.
3. Synonym of England and Wales.
4. Synonym of Great Britain or United Kingdom.
5. A habitational surname from Old English.
6. A city in Lonoke County, Arkansas, United States.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *angliz
Old English Engle
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Old English Engla land
Middle English Engelond
English England
From Middle English Engelond, England, from Old English Engla land (literally “land of the Angles”), from genitive of Engle (“the Angles”) + land (“land”).

## Common misspellings (11)
`egnland`, `engalnd`, `enggland`, `engladn`, `englandd`, `englannd`, `englland`, `englnad`, `enlgand`, `enngland`, `negland`

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