# don vs duc

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### don
*noun · IPA [dɔ̃] · frequency rank #3,645*
Spende, Gabe

### duc
*noun · IPA [duk] · frequency rank #48,075*
der Herzog, der Führer

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