# Greenwich

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈɡɹɛnɪt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #14,127

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19. A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
20. A community in Nova Scotia.
21. A suburb of Sydney, New South Wales.
22. The Greenwich meridian; the prime meridian.

## Etymology
From Middle English Greenwich, from Old English Grēnawīċ, Grēnewīċ (literally “green harbour, green settlement”). Equivalent to green + -wich.
The civil parish in New Brunswick may have been named after Greenwich near London, after Greenwich Village, or after Greenwich Street in Hampstead, New York.

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

## Common misspellings (14)
`gerenwich`, `ggreenwich`, `greeniwch`, `greennwich`, `greenwcih`, `greenwicch`, `greenwichh`, `greenwihc`, `greenwwich`, `greewnich`, `grenewich`, `grenwich`, `grreenwich`, `rgeenwich`

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