# Peebles

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #49,539

## Definitions
1. A town (royal burgh) in Tweeddale, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland, and the former county town of Peeblesshire (OS grid ref NT2540).
2. A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Chester No. 125, Saskatchewan, Canada.
3. A village in Adams County, Ohio, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.
5. A locality north-west of Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand.
6. A surname.

## Etymology
* The town in Scotland is from Scots Peebles, from Scottish Gaelic Na Pùballan, of Brythonic origin, from Proto-Brythonic *pėbɨll (“tent, temporary settlement”), from Vulgar Latin păpiliō, from Latin pāpiliō. Doublet of papilio, papillon, and pavilion.
* The surname is Scottish and derived from the town.

## Easily confused with
- **peels** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/peebles-vs-peels)
- **peeled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/peebles-vs-peeled)
- **peoples** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/peebles-vs-peoples)
- **peerless** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/peebles-vs-peerless)
- **pebble** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pebble-vs-peebles)
- **pebbles** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pebbles-vs-peebles)

## Common misspellings (9)
`epebles`, `pebeles`, `peebbles`, `peebels`, `peebless`, `peeblles`, `peeblse`, `peelbes`, `ppeebles`

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