# Michael vs Mikhail

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Michael
*name · IPA /ˈmaɪkəl/ · frequency rank #880*
A male given name from Hebrew.

### Mikhail
*name · frequency rank #17,675*
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl).

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