# Waddell

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #44,009

## Definitions
1. A surname from Old English.
2. An unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

## Etymology
Various origins:
* A variant of the Scottish surname Weddle.
* An English topographic surname for someone who lived at the hill where woad grew, from Old English wād (“woad”) + hyll (“hill”).

## Easily confused with
- **waddle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/waddell-vs-waddle)
- **Wendell** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/waddell-vs-wendell)

## Common misspellings (7)
`awddell`, `waddel`, `waddlel`, `wadedll`, `wadell`, `wdadell`, `wwaddell`

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