# APL vs Ava

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### APL
*noun · frequency rank #48,593*
Initialism of acute promyelocytic leukemia.

### Ava
*name · IPA /ˈeɪvə/ · frequency rank #15,104*
A female given name from Hebrew, a variant of Eva.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/apl-vs-ava