# don vs drone

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### don
*noun · IPA /dɒn/ · frequency rank #2,480*
A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.

### drone
*noun · IPA /dɹəʊn/ · frequency rank #7,127*
A male ant, bee, or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/don-vs-drone