# waren vs woran

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### waren
*verb · IPA [ˈvaːʁən] · frequency rank #115*
1. Person Plural Präteritum Indikativ Aktiv des Verbs sein

### woran
*conjunction · IPA [voˈʁan] · frequency rank #4,241*
an was

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