# Dons vs drowns

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Dons
*name · frequency rank #23,812*
Aberdeen Football Club, a football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

### drowns
*verb · IPA /dɹaʊnz/ · frequency rank #35,268*
third-person singular simple present indicative of drown

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