# glee vs grew

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### glee
*noun · IPA /ɡliː/ · frequency rank #15,177*
Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.

### grew
*verb · IPA /ɡɹuː/ · frequency rank #2,072*
simple past of grow

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
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