# Edo vs EU

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Edo
*name · IPA /ˈɛdəʊ/ · frequency rank #22,067*
Former name of Tokyo: the capital city of Japan

### EU
*name · IPA /ˌiː ˈjuː/ · frequency rank #2,389*
Initialism of European Union.

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