# meal vs moa

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### meal
*noun · IPA /miːl/ · frequency rank #3,113*
Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.

### moa
*noun · IPA /ˈmɒʌ/ · frequency rank #29,747*
Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.

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