# was vs WV

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### WV
*name · frequency rank #23,155*
Initialism of West Virginia: a state of the United States.

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