# Milan vs Milly

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Milan
*name · IPA /mɪˈlɑn/ · frequency rank #6,593*
A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Milan and the region of Lombardy, Italy.

### Milly
*name · frequency rank #27,215*
A diminutive of the female given names Mildred, Millicent, Emily, or Camilla, also used as a formal given name.

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