# Huntingdon

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈhʌn.tɪŋ.dən/ · frequency rank #36,610

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, and former county town of Huntingdonshire (OS grid ref TL2372).
3. A borough, the county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.
4. A town, the county seat of Carroll County, Tennessee, United States.
5. A community in the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada, located on the US border and named after Collis Potter Huntington.
6. A former township in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada, now part of Centre Hastings municipality (see there).
7. A town in Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Montérégie region, Quebec, Canada, originally in Huntingdon County.
8. A locality in the Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
9. A rural locality south of Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand.

## Etymology
From Old English Huntandūn, equivalent to hunta (“hunter”) + dūn (“hill, mountain”).

## Easily confused with
- **Huntington** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/huntingdon-vs-huntington)

## Common misspellings (16)
`hhuntingdon`, `hnutingdon`, `hunitngdon`, `hunntingdon`, `huntigndon`, `huntindgon`, `huntingddon`, `huntingdno`, `huntingdonn`, `huntinggdon`, `huntingodn`, `huntinngdon`, `huntnigdon`, `hunttingdon`, `hutningdon`, `uhntingdon`

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