# Guilford

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #33,667

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Jo Daviess County, Illinois.
4. An unincorporated community in Dearborn County, Indiana.
5. A town in Piscataquis County, Maine.
6. An unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland.
7. A neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland.
8. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hill County, Montana.
9. A town in Chenango County, New York.
10. A town in Windham County, Vermont.
11. A college in Greensboro, North Carolina; in full, Guilford College.
12. A former township in the municipality of Dysart et al, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
13. Misspelling of Guildford.

## Etymology
Presumably a variant of Guildford.

## Easily confused with
- **Gifford** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/gifford-vs-guilford)
- **Guildford** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/guildford-vs-guilford)

## Common misspellings (12)
`gguilford`, `giulford`, `guiflord`, `guilfford`, `guilfodr`, `guilfordd`, `guilforrd`, `guilfrod`, `guillford`, `guilofrd`, `guliford`, `ugilford`

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