# clem vs Clio

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### clem
*verb · IPA /klɛm/ · frequency rank #29,597*
To be hungry; starve.

### 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: 2026-09-03.
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