# sweet vs sweeten

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### sweet
*adjective · IPA /swiːt/ · frequency rank #1,322*
Tasting of sugars.

### sweeten
*verb · IPA /ˈswiːtən/ · frequency rank #38,641*
To make sweet to the taste.

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