# Oshkosh

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #42,311

## Definitions
1. A small city, the county seat of Garden County, Nebraska, United States.
2. A city, the county seat of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States.
3. A town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States, adjacent to the city of the same name.

## Etymology
Named after Chief Oshkosh, from Ojibwe oshkanzhiin (nail, claw).

## Common misspellings (11)
`ohskosh`, `oshhkosh`, `oshkkosh`, `oshkohs`, `oshkoshh`, `oshkossh`, `oshksoh`, `oshoksh`, `oskhosh`, `osshkosh`, `sohkosh`

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