# Hansard

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈhænsəd/ · frequency rank #48,266

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
PIE word
 *ḱóm
From Middle English hansard (“merchant or citizen of a Hanseatic town; member of a merchant guild; a surname”), from hanse, hansze, hanze, haunse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League; member of the Hanseatic League; membership fee for a merchant guild; payment in general”) + -ard (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Hanse is derived from Old French hanse (“merchant guild; membership fee for a merchant guild”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; with; along”) + *sed- (“to sit”). The English word is analysable as Hanse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League”) + -ard (suffix forming agent nouns, especially pejorative ones).

## Easily confused with
- **hazard** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hansard-vs-hazard)
- **Harvard** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hansard-vs-harvard)
- **hayward** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hansard-vs-hayward)
- **hangar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hangar-vs-hansard)
- **haggard** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/haggard-vs-hansard)
- **Hanford** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hanford-vs-hansard)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ahnsard`, `hanasrd`, `hannsard`, `hansadr`, `hansardd`, `hansarrd`, `hansrad`, `hanssard`, `hasnard`, `hhansard`, `hnasard`

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