# Pears vs Perl

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Pears
*name · frequency rank #23,627*
A surname transferred from the given name.

### Perl
*name · frequency rank #30,172*
A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.

## Source
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