won

\wɔn\

/\wɔn\/ noun

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The verdict

“won” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #28,023) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#28,023
frequency rank, French
549
“W” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité monétaire de Corée du Sud, divisée en 100 jeons. Son symbole est ₩ (Unicode U+20A9). Son code ISO 4217 est KRW.

Corpus desk

Index FR-won · won · French

won · rank #28,023 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,023
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 549
  • PHOTO-FINISH VW

Nearest frequency peer: VW (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « won »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « won » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

won vs wu
33% similar
won vs wp
33% similar
won vs wow
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for won
PropertyValue
Headwordwon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\wɔn\
Letters3
Frequency rank#28,023
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « won »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).wonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « VW » (#28,022), « écrin » (#28,024), « vuelta » (#28,021). Parmi 549 lemmes en « W », « won » est au #28,023. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for won is neighbouring look-alikes ("wu", "wp", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \wɔn\. Frequency #28,023 among 549 “W” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

won doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "wu", "wp", "wow", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is won, spelled W-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Unité monétaire de Corée du Sud, divisée en 100 jeons. Son symbole est ₩ (Unicode U+20A9). Son code ISO 4217 est KRW.
  2. 2
    Unité monétaire de Corée du Nord, divisée en 100 chons. Son code ISO 4217 est KPW.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how won appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En six mois, le baht perdra 53 % de sa valeur par rapport au dollar, le won coréen 41 % et la roupie indonésienne 79 %.
  2. Tout est fini, je ne sais comment prendre congé d’elle, je me dis qu’elle s’attend peut-être à ce que je la paye et je me souviens que je possède d’énormes liasses neuves et craquantes de won, la devise coréenne, qui ont été remises le lendemain de notre arrivée à chacun des membres de la délégation pour nos menus plaisirs et dépenses.

This word in other languages

won(English)won(Español)Won(Deutsch)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "won"?
"won" is spelled W-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \wɔn\.
What does "won" mean?
As a noun, "won" means: Unité monétaire de Corée du Sud, divisée en 100 jeons. Son symbole est ₩ (Unicode U+20A9). Son code ISO 4217 est KRW.
What words are commonly confused with "won"?
"won" is commonly confused with "wu", "wp", "wow". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "won"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "won" is \wɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "won" come from?
"won" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "won", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

écu#28,025tsé#28,002aya#28,065bee#28,072

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list