# Oreo vs owed

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### Oreo
*noun · IPA /ˈɔɹioʊ/ · frequency rank #30,521*
A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.

### owed
*verb · IPA /oʊd/ · frequency rank #8,838*
simple past and past participle of owe

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
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