# tapas vs Tatar

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### tapas
*noun · IPA /ˈtæpæs/ · frequency rank #34,713*
A variety of Spanish small savoury food items or snacks such as croquettes, cured meat, potato salad, and seafood, originally served with sherry and now often with other alcoholic beverages as well.

### Tatar
*name · IPA /ˈtætɑː(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #37,728*
An agglutinative language belonging to the Altai group of Turkic languages. It is an official language of Tatarstan. There are some eight million speakers spread across Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

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