# was vs wow

> French confusable word pair

## The two words

### was
*pronoun · IPA \vas\ · frequency rank #9,098*
Quelque chose.

### wow
*intj · IPA \waw\ · frequency rank #3,885*
Exprime l’étonnement, l’émerveillement ou l’admiration.

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