# Amarillo vs armadillo

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Amarillo
*name · IPA /æməˈɹɪloʊ/ · frequency rank #33,931*
A city, the county seat of Potter County, in the northwest plains of Texas, United States.

### armadillo
*noun · IPA /ɑɹməˈdɪloʊ/ · frequency rank #41,512*
Any of the burrowing mammals covered with bony, jointed, protective plates, families Dasypodidae and Chlamyphoridae in the order Cingulata, found in the Americas, especially in South America.

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