# was vs wasch

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### was
*pronoun · IPA [vas] · frequency rank #44*
sächliches Fragewort

### wasch
*verb · IPA [vaʃ] · frequency rank #22,959*
2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs waschen

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