# Sylvester

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /sɪlˈvɛstɚ/ · frequency rank #21,089

## Definitions
1. A male given name from Latin used in English since the sixteenth century.
2. A surname.
3. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. A city, the county seat of Worth County, Georgia, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Fisher County, Texas, United States.
6. A small town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
7. A town in Green County, Wisconsin, United States.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sylvester (“woody, rural”) from silva (“wood”); name of a saint whose feast day falls on December 31.

## Common misspellings (15)
`slyvester`, `ssylvester`, `sylevster`, `syllvester`, `sylvesetr`, `sylvesster`, `sylvesterr`, `sylvestre`, `sylvestter`, `sylvetser`, `sylvseter`, `sylvvester`, `syvlester`, `syylvester`, `yslvester`

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