# Staunton

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #42,920

## Definitions
1. A village and civil parish next to Corse, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7829).
2. A village in Staunton Coleford parish, Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO5412).
3. A civil parish (without a council) in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England, the local village is named Staunton in the Vale.
4. An independent city, the county seat of Augusta County, Virginia, United States.
5. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
From Old English stān (“stone”) + tūn (“enclosure; town, settlement”). Compare Stanton, which shares the same etymology.

## Easily confused with
- **Stanton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stanton-vs-staunton)

## Common misspellings (12)
`satunton`, `sstaunton`, `stanuton`, `staunnton`, `staunotn`, `stauntno`, `stauntonn`, `stauntton`, `stautnon`, `sttaunton`, `stuanton`, `tsaunton`

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