Which to use
“won” is a verb and “wood” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #25,404
- “won” frequency rank
- #16,056
- “wood” frequency rank
- 41460
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | won | wood |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs win | Wald |
Letter map: won vs wood
Shared letters muted; letters that set won and wood apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Grammar separator: won vs wood
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: won is averb and woodanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41460, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
won is recorded at frequency rank #25,404, classified as averb, pronounced […]. wood is at rank #16,056, tagged as anoun, pronounced [wʊd].
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 41460, this pair ranks #1,478,696 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of won vs wood
Shared letters: ow. Private to "won": n. Private to "wood": d.
"won" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "wood" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- wood ← owod · wod · wodo · woodd · wwood
Frequently Asked Questions
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What to do next
You've compared "won" and "wood". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "won" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "wood" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #1,478,696 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "won" and "wood" 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 #1,478,696 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.