# Baku vs baz

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Baku
*name · IPA /ˈbækuː/ · frequency rank #29,177*
The capital city of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

### baz
*noun · frequency rank #33,533*
A metasyntactic variable used to stand for some unspecified entity; typically the third in a series after foo and bar.

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