# femme vs fence

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### femme
*noun · IPA /fɛm/ · frequency rank #22,671*
A woman, a wife; (now chiefly Canada, US) a young woman or girl.

### fence
*noun · IPA /fɛns/ · frequency rank #5,037*
A thin artificial barrier that separates two pieces of land or forms a perimeter enclosing the lands of a house, building, etc.

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