# Ceylon vs colon

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Ceylon
*name · IPA /sɪˈlɒn/ · frequency rank #21,744*
Former name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia .

### colon
*noun · IPA /ˈkəʊ.lən/ · frequency rank #12,945*
The punctuation mark ⟨:⟩.

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