# Aar vs Avs

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Aar
*name · IPA /ɑɹ/ · frequency rank #45,768*
A river in Switzerland, flowing 292 km from the glaciers of the Bernese Alps into the Rhine at Koblenz, on the Swiss–German border.

### Avs
*name · frequency rank #44,071*
The Colorado Avalanche ice hockey team.

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