# Chicago vs chico

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Chicago
*name · IPA /ʃɪˈkɑː.ɡəʊ/ · frequency rank #1,556*
A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.

### chico
*noun · frequency rank #22,032*
A Latin-American boy; a Latino.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/chicago-vs-chico