# bananas vs Barnabas

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### bananas
*noun · IPA /bəˈnɑː.nəz/ · frequency rank #11,166*
plural of banana

### Barnabas
*name · IPA /ˈbɑɹnəbəs/ · frequency rank #34,791*
An early Christian, one of the earliest Christian disciples in Jerusalem

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