# Ottawa

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈɒtəwə/ · frequency rank #7,371

## Definitions
1. A city in Ontario, Canada; the capital city of Canada.
2. The federal government of Canada.
3. A river flowing southeast between Ontario and Quebec, Canada into the St. Lawrence River.
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11. A village and former commune of Ivory Coast.
12. A suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
13. An Algonquian people closely related to the Ojibwe.
14. The Ottawa language (may be considered a dialect of Ojibwe).

## Etymology
From Ojibwe odaawaa/ᐅᑡᐙ (“an Ottawa; a trader”), from Proto-Algonquian *atawewa (“to trade”).

## Easily confused with
- **Ozawa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ottawa-vs-ozawa)

## Common misspellings (6)
`otatwa`, `otawa`, `ottaaw`, `ottawwa`, `ottwaa`, `totawa`

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