# boat vs but

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### boat
*noun · IPA [bəʊt] · frequency rank #38,012*
Boot oder Schiff

### but
*conjunction · IPA [bʌt] · frequency rank #6,402*
aber

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/boat-vs-but