# McCarthy vs McCartney

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### McCarthy
*name · IPA /məˈkɑː.θi/ · frequency rank #10,576*
A surname from Irish.

### McCartney
*name · IPA /məkˈkɑː(ɹ)t.ni/ · frequency rank #14,586*
An Irish surname from Scottish Gaelic, notably of Sir Paul McCartney (b. 1942), one of the Beatles.

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