# Samaria vs Samaritan

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Samaria
*name · IPA /səˈmɑːɹi.ə/ · frequency rank #45,069*
Former name of Sebastia: a city in the West Bank, Palestine; the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Israel.

### Samaritan
*noun · IPA /səˈmæɹɪtən/ · frequency rank #23,981*
A native, or inhabitant of Samaria; especially one practising certain ethnoreligious traditions indigenous to that region.

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