# were vs wren

> French confusable word pair

## The two words

### were
*noun · frequency rank #18,909*
Wergeld, amende qu’un meurtrier devait payer en compensation aux parents de la victime.

### wren
*noun · IPA \ɹɛn\ · frequency rank #48,867*
Troglodyte.

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