# soaked vs stared

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### soaked
*verb · IPA /səʊkt/ · frequency rank #11,970*
simple past and past participle of soak

### stared
*verb · IPA /stɛɹd/ · frequency rank #13,065*
simple past and past participle of stare

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