Which to use
“won” is a verb and “WTO” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #646
- “won” frequency rank
- #21,709
- “WTO” frequency rank
- 22355
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | won | WTO |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | simple past and past participle of win | Initialism of World Trade Organization. |
Letter map: won vs WTO
Shared letters muted; letters that set won and WTO apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.
Part-of-speech tell for won / WTO
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: won is averb and WTOaname. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22355, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
won is recorded at frequency rank #646, classified as averb, pronounced /wʌn/. WTO is at rank #21,709, tagged as aname.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 22355, this pair ranks #417,197 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of won vs WTO
Shared letters: ow. Private to "won": n. Private to "WTO": t.
"won" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "WTO" · 3 letters · shape CCV
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
You've compared "won" and "WTO". Here's where to go from here.
- Full dictionary entry for "won" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "WTO" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #417,197 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "won" and "WTO" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "WTO vs WYO". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #417,197 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.