# Shrewsbury

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈʃɹəʊzbɹi/ · frequency rank #25,574

## Definitions
1. A large market town, the county town of Shropshire, England.
2. A civil parish with a town council which includes the town in Shropshire, which partly replaced Shrewsbury and Atcham District when it was abolished in 2009.
3. A small hamlet in Chatham-Kent municipality, south-western Ontario, Canada.
4. A ghost town in Gore township, Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
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18. An English earldom.

## Etymology
From Old English Sċrobbesburh (literally “fort in the scrubland region”), from *sċrob (“shrub, scrub”) + burh. Compare Shropshire from Sċrobbesċīr, short form of Sċrobbesbyriġ sċīr (literally “shire of Shrewsbury”).

## Common misspellings (17)
`hsrewsbury`, `sherwsbury`, `shhrewsbury`, `shreswbury`, `shrewbsury`, `shrewsbbury`, `shrewsbruy`, `shrewsburry`, `shrewsburyy`, `shrewsbuyr`, `shrewssbury`, `shrewsubry`, `shrewwsbury`, `shrrewsbury`, `shrwesbury`, `srhewsbury`, `sshrewsbury`

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