# Banbury vs Barbary

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Banbury
*name · IPA /ˈbænbɹi/ · frequency rank #44,634*
A market town and civil parish with a town council, on the River Cherwell in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP4540).

### Barbary
*name · IPA /ˈbɑː(ɹ)bəɹi/ · frequency rank #46,329*
The Mediterranean coastal areas of North Africa that were used as a base by pirates in the 16th to 19th centuries.

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