# Shackleton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #44,480

## Definitions
1. A surname from Old English.
2. A ghost town in Chattooga County, Georgia, United States.
3. Ernest Shackleton, British Antarctic explorer.

## Etymology
Habitational surname from a place in West Yorkshire, from an unattested Old English word *sċacol (“tongue of land”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Common misspellings (16)
`hsackleton`, `sahckleton`, `shacckleton`, `shackelton`, `shackkleton`, `shackleotn`, `shackletno`, `shackletonn`, `shackletton`, `shacklleton`, `shacklteon`, `shaclketon`, `shakcleton`, `shcakleton`, `shhackleton`, `sshackleton`

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