# ese vs Essen

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### ese
*noun · IPA /ˈɛˌseɪ/ · frequency rank #34,478*
dude, man. (Usually used vocatively).

### Essen
*name · frequency rank #38,392*
A major industrial city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.

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