# mona vs Monday

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### mona
*noun · IPA /ˈmoʊnə/ · frequency rank #14,171*
Cercopithecus mona, a West African monkey.

### Monday
*noun · IPA /ˈmʌn.deɪ/ · frequency rank #1,666*
The second day of the week in many religious traditions, and the first day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm. It follows Sunday and precedes Tuesday.

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