# sent vs sew

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sent
*verb · IPA /sɛnt/ · frequency rank #722*
simple past and past participle of send

### sew
*verb · IPA /səʊ/ · frequency rank #16,124*
To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sent-vs-sew