wore

/wɔɹ/verb

wore is spelled W-O-R-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, wore means “simple past of wear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wore?

Letters	4: W-O-R-E
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	19 times per million words; the 4,365th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Pairs people search	war vs wore
Sounds like	war
Rhymes with	for war store anymore more
Same letters	ower

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is wore?

Wore appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form in the list.

wore0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce wore?

UK /wɔː/
US /wɔɹ/
/wo(ː)ɹ/

Wore has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-wore.wav, En-us-wore.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with wore

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

war vs wore0 B

Sounds like: war (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with wore?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wore from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: ower.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does wore mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

1
simple past of wear (a form of wear)
2
colloquialnonstandardpast participle of wear (a form of wear)
3
simple past of ware ("bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern") (a form of ware)

phrase

as WORE

1
Initialism of write once, run everywhere.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).