# Congo vs cons

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Congo
*name · IPA /ˈkɒŋɡəʊ/ · frequency rank #10,349*
Democratic Republic of the Congo (a country in Central Africa, larger and to the east of the Republic of the Congo; official name: Democratic Republic of the Congo; capital: Kinshasa).

### cons
*noun · IPA /ˈkɑnz/ · frequency rank #10,183*
A data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.

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