# Essen vs Essex

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### Essex
*name · IPA /ˈɛs.ɪks/ · frequency rank #8,032*
A maritime county of England bordered by the North Sea, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Greater London, and separated from Kent by the Thames estuary.

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