# was vs wy

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### wy
*noun · IPA /waɪ/ · frequency rank #33,914*
The name of the letter Y.

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