# kai vs kaka

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### kai
*noun · IPA /kaɪ̯/ · frequency rank #10,070*
Food.

### kaka
*noun · IPA /ˈkɑːkə/ · frequency rank #42,723*
Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.

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