# Sirius vs spirits

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Sirius
*name · IPA /ˈsɪɹi.əs/ · frequency rank #20,774*
A telescopic binary star, visually the brightest star in the night sky, a part of the northern constellation of Canis Major (the Greater Dog), one of three stars in the Winter Triangle asterism. Long understood as a single extremely luminous white star, it was associated in ancient Egypt with the Nile flood and in Greek and Roman culture with the "dog days" of summer.

### spirits
*verb · IPA /ˈspɪɹɪts/ · frequency rank #5,553*
third-person singular simple present indicative of spirit

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