# London vs loon

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### London
*name · IPA /ˈlʌn.dən/ · frequency rank #543*
The capital city of the United Kingdom; the capital city of England, within Greater London. Situated on the tidal River Thames in southeast England, with a metropolitan population of more than 13,000,000.

### loon
*noun · IPA /ˈluːn/ · frequency rank #29,351*
A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic.

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