# Hodder

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #48,283

## Definitions
1. An English surname originating as an occupation, for the trade name hodder
2. A river in Lancashire, England, tributary to the Ribble.

## Etymology
(surname): From Middle English occupational name for a maker of hoods, from Old English hod (“hood”), from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz.
:(river): From Brythonic, said to mean "pleasant water," with the second element from Proto-Brythonic *duβr. The first element is uncertain, but compare Welsh hawdd (“easy, prosperous, pleasant”).

## Easily confused with
- **homer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-homer)
- **Hodge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hodge)
- **hover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hover)
- **horde** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-horde)
- **hoyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hoyer)
- **holder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-holder)
- **hooker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hooker)
- **holden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-holden)
- **hotter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hotter)
- **Hoover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hoover)
- **hopper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hopper)
- **Hodges** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hodges)
- **hooper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hooper)
- **hooded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-hooded)
- **horner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-horner)
- **holler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-holler)
- **holier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hodder-vs-holier)
- **harder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/harder-vs-hodder)
- **hidden** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/hidden-vs-hodder)
- **header** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/header-vs-hodder)

## Common misspellings (7)
`hdoder`, `hhodder`, `hodderr`, `hoddre`, `hodedr`, `hoder`, `ohdder`

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