# tease vs those

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### tease
*verb · IPA /tiːz/ · frequency rank #13,253*
To separate the fibres of (a fibrous material).

### those
*determiner · IPA /ðəʊz/ · frequency rank #133*
plural of that

## Source
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