# Clair vs Clio

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Clair
*name · frequency rank #20,062*
A female given name from French.

### Clio
*name · IPA /ˈklaɪ.oʊ/ · frequency rank #42,581*
The goddess of history and heroic poetry, and one of the Muses; the daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

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