wonvsWWWTell them apart

Quick tell: won is a verb, WWW is an abbrev, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#25,404
“won” frequency rank
#14,467
“WWW” frequency rank
39871
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature won WWW
Definition Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs win ein Hypertext-System, das über das Internet abgerufen werden kann

Letter map: won vs WWW

Shared letters muted; letters that set won and WWW apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

3 ch
won
3 ch
WWW

Part-of-speech tell for won / WWW

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: won is averb and WWWanabbrev. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39871, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

won is recorded at frequency rank #25,404, classified as averb, pronounced […]. WWW is at rank #14,467, tagged as anabbrev, pronounced [ˌveːveːˈveː].

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 39871, this pair ranks #1,524,546 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of won vs WWW

Shared letters: w. Private to "won": no. Private to "WWW": -.

"won" · 3 letters · shape CVC  ·  "WWW" · 3 letters · shape CCC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "won" for "WWW" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "won" is a verb and "WWW" an abbrev, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "won" vs "WWW" - which ranks higher?
"WWW" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #14,467 in our German list, against #25,404 for "won". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "won" and "WWW".

  • Full dictionary entry for "won" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "WWW" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,524,546 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "won" and "WWW" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "puzzles vs won". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #1,524,546 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list