# was vs wau

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### wau
*intj · IPA [vaʊ̯] · frequency rank #39,137*
Laut, der beim Bellen eines Hundes entsteht

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/was-vs-wau