# did vs don

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### did
*verb · IPA /dɪd/ · frequency rank #114*
simple past of do

### don
*noun · IPA /dɒn/ · frequency rank #2,480*
A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.

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