# Sardinia

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /sɑɹˈdɪniə/ · frequency rank #31,746

## Definitions
1. An island and autonomous region of Italy, in the Mediterranean Sea.
2. A town in New York.
3. A village in Washington Township, Brown County and Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio.
4. An unincorporated community in Indiana.

## Etymology
Borrowing from Latin Sardinia and Ancient Greek Σαρδώ (Sardṓ), which in turn derive from a pre-Roman substrate language, *sard, *shard. It is connected by some scholars to the name of the Sherden or Shardana, an ethnic group amongst the Sea Peoples. A Phoenician inscription found in Nora and dated to the 9th century B.C.E. identifies the island as Shardan.

## Easily confused with
- **sardonic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sardinia-vs-sardonic)
- **sardine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sardine-vs-sardinia)
- **sardines** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sardines-vs-sardinia)

## Common misspellings (11)
`asrdinia`, `sadrinia`, `sarddinia`, `sardiina`, `sardinai`, `sardinnia`, `sardniia`, `saridnia`, `sarrdinia`, `sradinia`, `ssardinia`

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