# abba vs alba

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### abba
*noun · IPA /ˈæb.ə/ · frequency rank #23,736*
Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

### alba
*noun · IPA /ˈæl.bə/ · frequency rank #18,753*
A type of lyrical poetry, traditionally Provençal, about lovers who must part at dawn.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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