One or won?
one is a number meaning “The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to…”; won is a noun meaning “The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea”. Use one as a number and won as a noun (one is also a noun: “The digit or figure 1”). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) one is about 19 times as common as won.
What is the difference between one and won?
| one | won | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | number, pronoun, noun, adjective, determiner, verb, particle, suffix | verb, noun |
| Meaning | The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number The first positive number in the set of natural numbers One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group | The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea |
| Example | In some religions, there is more than one god | I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won |
| Forms | 1, I | none |
| Pronunciation | /wʌn/ /wɒn/ /wɐn/ | /wɒn/ /wɑn/ /wʌn/ |
| In writing | 2,951 times per million words | 158 times per million words |
Sources: one and won in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of one and won
one
- 1
The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number
In some religions, there is more than one god
- 2
One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group
Any one of the boys
- 3
The digit or figure 1
- 4
Of a period of time, being particular
One day the prince set forth to kill the dragon that had brought terror to his father’s kingdom for centuries
- 5
A single
There was one box of biscuits available
- 6
To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite
- 7
Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something
Got almonds one
- 8
Used as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause
The bird that make a lot of noise one is gone already
won
- 1
The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, one or won?
one appears 2,951 times per million words; won 158 times per million words.
one 2,951 times per million wordswon 158 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).