# bard vs baz

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### bard
*noun · IPA /bɑːd/ · frequency rank #18,490*
A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

### 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/bard-vs-baz