# w vs Wu

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### w
*character · IPA /ˈdʌbəl.juː/ · frequency rank #628*
The twenty-third letter of the English alphabet, called double-u and written in the Latin script.

### Wu
*name · IPA /ˈwuː/ · frequency rank #9,555*
Suzhou, a city in southern Jiangsu province in China, whence:

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