# Cologne vs colon

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Cologne
*name · IPA /kəˈloʊn/ · frequency rank #13,484*
The largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the Rhine River.

### 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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