# were vs wren

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

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

### wren
*noun · IPA /ɹɛn/ · frequency rank #25,979*
Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).

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