# Hanford

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #41,167

## Definitions
1. A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
2. A city, the county seat of Kings County, in central California, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
4. A former small agricultural community located in Benton County, Washington, which was depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site.
5. A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST8411).
6. A suburb in south-west Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8742).

## Etymology
From Welsh hen ("old") and ford ("a way"): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857).

## Easily confused with
- **Hansard** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hanford-vs-hansard)
- **Hartford** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hanford-vs-hartford)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ahnford`, `hafnord`, `hanfford`, `hanfodr`, `hanfordd`, `hanforrd`, `hanfrod`, `hannford`, `hanofrd`, `hhanford`, `hnaford`

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