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ww

noun

ww is a noun meaning “Initialism of wrong word” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-W, and it appears 2.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does ww mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of wrong word.

noun

as WW
  1. 1

    Initialism of world war.

  2. 2

    Initialism of worldwide.

  3. 3

    slangInitialism of wild woman, i.e. prostitute.

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

Forms of ww

  • w.w.

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

How common is ww?

Ww appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form in the list.

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

Words people confuse with ww

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

w-w vs ww0 B

Also written: w-w (one word or two).

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