Hendon
/hɛndən/
"hendon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Hendon” is uncommon English (frequency #52,375 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,375
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A suburban area in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2288).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Hendon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /hɛndən/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Hendon” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Hendon is uncommon English at frequency #52,375 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /hɛndən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Hendon has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English hēan, dative case of hēah (“high”), + dūn (“hill”). The correct English form is Hendon, spelled H-E-N-D-O-N.
Definition
- 1A suburban area in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2288).
- 2An eastern suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ4056).
- 3A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Lakeview, No. 337, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 4A rural town in Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
- 5A suburb of Adelaide in the City of Charles Sturt, South Australia.
- 6A habitational surname from Old English.
Etymology
From Old English hēan, dative case of hēah (“high”), + dūn (“hill”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Hendon”
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- The one correct English spelling is H-E-N-D-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.