# sworn

> English word · Verb · IPA /swɔːn/ · frequency rank #8,362

## Definitions
1. past participle of swear

## Etymology
From Middle English sworen, isworen, from Old English sworen, ġesworen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaran, *giswaran, from Proto-Germanic *swaranaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *swarjaną (“to swear”), equivalent to swear + -en.

## Easily confused with
- **swot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sworn-vs-swot)
- **son** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/son-vs-sworn)
- **sor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sor-vs-sworn)
- **soon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/soon-vs-sworn)
- **sort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sort-vs-sworn)
- **sore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sore-vs-sworn)
- **swan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/swan-vs-sworn)
- **Sion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sion-vs-sworn)
- **sora** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sora-vs-sworn)
- **sown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sown-vs-sworn)
- **story** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/story-vs-sworn)
- **short** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/short-vs-sworn)
- **store** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/store-vs-sworn)
- **shown** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shown-vs-sworn)
- **score** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/score-vs-sworn)
- **sport** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sport-vs-sworn)
- **storm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/storm-vs-sworn)
- **sword** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sword-vs-sworn)
- **shore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shore-vs-sworn)
- **stern** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stern-vs-sworn)

## Common misspellings (8)
`sowrn`, `ssworn`, `swonr`, `swornn`, `sworrn`, `swron`, `swworn`, `wsorn`

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