# Maria vs Marissa

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Maria
*name · IPA /məˈɹiːə/ · frequency rank #4,031*
A female given name from Hebrew.

### Marissa
*name · IPA /məˈɹɪsə/ · frequency rank #24,818*
A female given name from Spanish, a contraction of Maria Lisa or Maria Luisa, though sometimes regarded as a re-interpretation of the name Melissa as a homophone in another European language.

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