# Alisha vs Alyssa

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Alisha
*name · frequency rank #47,457*
A female given name from the Germanic languages.

### Alyssa
*name · IPA /əˈlɪs.ə/ · frequency rank #23,165*
A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s.

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