# was vs Wea

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### was
*verb · IPA /wəz/ · frequency rank #16*
first-person singular simple past indicative of be.

### Wea
*noun · frequency rank #46,262*
An indigenous people of western Indiana, USA and surrounding regions .

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