# Michal vs Mikhail

> 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.

### 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/michal-vs-mikhail