# Danes vs Diane

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Danes
*name · IPA /deɪnz/ · frequency rank #22,341*
A surname.

### Diane
*name · IPA /daɪˈæn/ · frequency rank #9,166*
A female given name from Latin, popular in the middle of the 20th century

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