# was vs wem

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### wem
*pronoun · IPA [veːm] · frequency rank #2,002*
Dativ von wer

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