# won vs WV

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### won
*verb · IPA /wʌn/ · frequency rank #646*
simple past and past participle of win

### WV
*name · frequency rank #23,155*
Initialism of West Virginia: a state of the United States.

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