# Greeks vs Greene

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Greeks
*noun · IPA /ɡɹiːks/ · frequency rank #10,856*
plural of Greek

### Greene
*name · IPA /ɡɹiːn/ · frequency rank #10,220*
A surname from Middle English, a variant of Green.

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