# billed vs bowled

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### billed
*verb · IPA /bɪld/ · frequency rank #13,103*
simple past and past participle of bill

### bowled
*verb · IPA /bəʊld/ · frequency rank #21,459*
simple past and past participle of bowl

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/billed-vs-bowled