# Wilton

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈwɪltən/ · frequency rank #27,700

## Definitions
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8. A parish of the Scottish Borders council area, Scotland.
9. A suburb of Cork, County Cork, Ireland.
10. A small town in New South Wales, Australia.
11. A suburb of Wellington, Wellington region, New Zealand.
12. A village in Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe.
13. A rural municipality (the Rural Municipality of Wilton No. 472) in western Saskatchewan, Canada.
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29. A habitational surname from Old English.

## Etymology
From either Old English welig (“willow”) or wella (“spring, stream”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

## Easily confused with
- **Winton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilton-vs-winton)
- **Winston** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilton-vs-winston)
- **wilt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilt-vs-wilton)
- **Wilson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilson-vs-wilton)
- **willow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/willow-vs-wilton)
- **Walton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/walton-vs-wilton)
- **Weston** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/weston-vs-wilton)
- **Wilcox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilcox-vs-wilton)
- **wanton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wanton-vs-wilton)
- **Weldon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/weldon-vs-wilton)
- **Wilmot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilmot-vs-wilton)
- **wilted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wilted-vs-wilton)

## Common misspellings (9)
`iwlton`, `willton`, `wilotn`, `wiltno`, `wiltonn`, `wiltton`, `witlon`, `wliton`, `wwilton`

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