# flamenco vs flamingo

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### flamenco
*noun · IPA /fləˈmɛŋkəʊ/ · frequency rank #31,560*
A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.

### flamingo
*noun · IPA /fləˈmɪŋɡoʊ/ · frequency rank #26,794*
A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

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