# Devin vs diving

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Devin
*name · IPA /ˈdɛvɪn/ · frequency rank #20,333*
A surname from Irish. An Anglicisation of Irish Ó Damháin (“(descendant of a person named) Fawn”).

### diving
*verb · IPA /ˈdaɪ.vɪŋ/ · frequency rank #6,895*
present participle and gerund of dive

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