# takes vs Thames

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### takes
*verb · IPA /teɪks/ · frequency rank #683*
third-person singular simple present indicative of take

### Thames
*name · IPA /tɛmz/ · frequency rank #10,780*
A river in southern England, flowing 336 km (209 mi.) from Gloucestershire, through Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Greater London, and between Essex and Kent to the Thames Estuary and North Sea.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/takes-vs-thames