# Wea vs were

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### were
*verb · IPA /wə(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #52*
second-person singular simple past indicative of be

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