# Medici vs Medina

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Medici
*name · frequency rank #28,990*
A surname from Italian.

### Medina
*name · IPA /məˈdinə/ · frequency rank #19,135*
A major city, the capital of Medina province, Saudi Arabia, holy to Islam, 200 miles north of Mecca along the Hejaz, from which the Hijra was launched; contains Muhammad's tomb.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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