# nox vs nut

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### nox
*noun · frequency rank #34,207*
The period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; a night.

### nut
*noun · IPA /nʌt/ · frequency rank #6,715*
Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants.

## Source
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