# wean vs wynn

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### wean
*verb · IPA /wiːn/ · frequency rank #40,968*
To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.

### wynn
*noun · IPA /wɪn/ · frequency rank #25,260*
A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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