# sanders

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #7,388

## Definitions
1. sandalwood, especially the red sandalwood

## Etymology
From Middle English saundres (“sandalwood”), from Old French sandre, from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /⁠čandal⁠/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”).

## Easily confused with
- **sands** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-sands)
- **Sandra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-sandra)
- **sender** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-sender)
- **sanger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-sanger)
- **Sayers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-sayers)
- **singers** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-singers)
- **slander** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-slander)
- **saunders** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-saunders)
- **Sanderson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sanders-vs-sanderson)
- **sadder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sadder-vs-sanders)
- **sander** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sander-vs-sanders)
- **Sandeep** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sandeep-vs-sanders)
- **Sandberg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sandberg-vs-sanders)

## Common misspellings (11)
`asnders`, `sadners`, `sandders`, `sanderrs`, `sanderss`, `sandesr`, `sandres`, `sanedrs`, `sannders`, `snaders`, `ssanders`

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