# Verona vs veronica

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Verona
*name · IPA /vɪˈɹəʊnə/ · frequency rank #24,631*
A city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy.

### veronica
*noun · IPA /vəˈɹɒnɪkə/ · frequency rank #13,835*
The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.

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