# Hindustan

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #30,827

## Definitions
1. India (Republic of India).
2. The entire region of the Indian subcontinent.
3. The northern (properly north central) region of India.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Hindustani ہِنْدُوسْتان (hindūstān) / हिंदुस्तान (hindustān), itself from Classical Persian هِنْدُوسْتَان (hindūstān, “Indian subcontinent”). By surface analysis, Hindu + -stan.

## Common misspellings (14)
`hhindustan`, `hidnustan`, `hinddustan`, `hindsutan`, `hindusatn`, `hindusstan`, `hindustann`, `hindustna`, `hindusttan`, `hindutsan`, `hinndustan`, `hinudstan`, `hnidustan`, `ihndustan`

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