# sowed vs Soweto

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sowed
*verb · IPA /səʊd/ · frequency rank #47,920*
simple past and past participle of sow

### Soweto
*name · frequency rank #40,454*
An urban area on the edge of Johannesburg, South Africa, known for a violent uprising that occurred there in the 1970s.

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