# n vs Ng

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### n
*character · IPA /ɛn/ · frequency rank #737*
The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

### Ng
*name · IPA /əŋ/ · frequency rank #8,322*
A surname from Chinese.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/n-vs-ng