# war vs WS

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### war
*verb · IPA [vaːɐ̯] · frequency rank #39*
1. Person Singular Indikativ Präteritum des Verbs sein

### WS
*abbrev · IPA […] · frequency rank #21,852*
Wintersemester

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