# barrio vs Barrios

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### barrio
*noun · frequency rank #34,792*
A municipality or subdivision of a municipality in Spanish America, and in Spain itself.

### Barrios
*name · frequency rank #49,203*
A surname from Spanish.

## Source
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