# Sark vs star

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Sark
*name · IPA /sɑːk/ · frequency rank #42,880*
One of the Channel Islands; notable inter alia for its local government containing one of the last vestiges of feudalism in Europe.

### star
*noun · IPA /stɑː(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #666*
Any small, natural and bright dot in the sky, most visible in the night or twilight sky. This sense includes the planets, but it is now sometimes used in exclusion of them due to influence from the technical astronomical sense.

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