# Michal vs Michel

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Michal
*name · IPA /miˈxɑl/ · frequency rank #39,427*
A daughter of Saul and wife of David in the Old Testament.

### Michel
*name · frequency rank #10,886*
A surname from French

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