# Whittlesey

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #85,944

## Definitions
1. A market town and civil parish with a town council in Fenland district, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TL2797).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
From the Old English personal name *Wittel + -s- + īeġ (“island”).

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