Wohl vs won, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“Wohl” is a noun and “won” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#174
“Wohl” frequency rank: #25,404
“won” frequency rank: 25578
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	Wohl	won
Definition	Zustand des Gutgehens, körperlich und geistig, auch Gesundheit und Glück	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs win

Letter map: Wohl vs won

Shared letters muted; letters that set Wohl and won apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

Wohl

3 ch

won

Grammar separator: Wohl vs won

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Wohl is anoun and wonaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25578, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Wohl is recorded at frequency rank #174, classified as anoun, pronounced [voːl]. won is at rank #25,404, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 25578, this pair ranks #1,831,140 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of Wohl vs won

Shared letters: ow. Private to "Wohl": hl. Private to "won": n.

"Wohl" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "won" · 3 letters · shape CVC

Known mistypes of this pair

Wohl ← owhl · whol · wohhl · wohll · wolh · wwohl

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Wohl" and "won" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Wohl" is a noun and "won" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

Frequency check: "Wohl" vs "won" - which ranks higher?

"Wohl" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #174 in our German list, against #25,404 for "won". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Pair "Wohl" vs "won" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

Full dictionary entry for "Wohl" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "won" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #1,831,140 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"Wohl" and "won" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs won". Nearby pair
Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,831,140 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.