# Waterford

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #25,973

## Definitions
1. A city in County Waterford, Munster, Ireland.
2. A county of Ireland; see Wikipedia:County Waterford.
3. A village in Stapleford parish, East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL3114).
4. A suburb of Logan, Queensland, Australia.
5. A suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
6. A civil parish of Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
7. A community in Digby County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
8. A community in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
9. A neighbourhood of Portmore, Jamaica.
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## Etymology
From water + ford. In the case of the city in Ireland, this is a modification through folk etymology of Old Norse Veðrafjǫrðr (literally “wether ford”).
The civil parish in New Brunswick may have been named after Waterford, Ireland.

## Easily confused with
- **Watford** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/waterford-vs-watford)
- **waterfowl** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/waterford-vs-waterfowl)

## Common misspellings (14)
`awterford`, `waetrford`, `watefrord`, `waterfford`, `waterfodr`, `waterfordd`, `waterforrd`, `waterfrod`, `waterofrd`, `waterrford`, `watreford`, `watterford`, `wtaerford`, `wwaterford`

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