# Sandown

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #47,318

## Definitions
1. A town and civil parish with a town council on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5984). , from Old English sand and hamm, meaning 'the sandy enclosure or river-meadow'.
2. A town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States, named after Sandown, IoW.
3. A suburb of Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa.

## Easily confused with
- **sundown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sandown-vs-sundown)
- **sandman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sandman-vs-sandown)

## Common misspellings (11)
`asndown`, `sadnown`, `sanddown`, `sandonw`, `sandownn`, `sandowwn`, `sandwon`, `sanndown`, `sanodwn`, `snadown`, `ssandown`

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