# Iraq vs IRB

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Iraq
*name · IPA /ɪˈɹɑːk/ · frequency rank #3,435*
A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Iraq. Capital and largest city: Baghdad.

### IRB
*noun · frequency rank #33,690*
Initialism of institutional review board, a committee that reviews the designs of proposed experiments to confirm whether all the methods proposed are ethical.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
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