# woken vs worked

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### woken
*verb · IPA /ˈwəʊ.kən/ · frequency rank #17,995*
past participle of wake

### worked
*verb · IPA /wɜːkt/ · frequency rank #725*
simple past and past participle of work

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