# peril vs Perl

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### peril
*noun · IPA /ˈpɛɹɪl/ · frequency rank #17,206*
A situation of serious and immediate danger.

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

## Source
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