# Tasman vs Tasmania

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Tasman
*name · IPA /ˈtæzmən/ · frequency rank #35,108*
A surname from Dutch.

### Tasmania
*name · IPA /tæzˈmeɪniə/ · frequency rank #14,436*
One of the six federal states of Australia, consisting of one large, eponymous and several much smaller islands, off the eastern part of Australia's south coast; a former British colony, from 1856 to 1901. Capital: Hobart.

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