Which to use
“won” and “wood” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,023
- “won” frequency rank
- #17,040
- “wood” frequency rank
- 45063
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | won | wood |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Unité monétaire de Corée du Sud, divisée en 100 jeons. Son symbole est ₩ (Unicode U+20A9). Son code ISO 4217 est KRW. | Bois, substance dure et fibreuse des arbres. |
Where the eye mixes won and wood
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 2 letters in sequence. won runs 3 letters (CVC) against wood's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: won vs wood
A purely visual mix-up. won (\wɔn\) and wood (\wʊd\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 45063, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
won is recorded at frequency rank #28,023, classified as anoun, pronounced \wɔn\. wood is at rank #17,040, tagged as anoun, pronounced \wʊd\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 45063, this pair ranks #205,691 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of won vs wood
Shared letters: ow. Private to "won": n. Private to "wood": d.
"won" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "wood" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- wood ← owod · wod · wodo · woodd · wwood
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "won" for "wood" ever safe?
Which is more common, "won" or "wood"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "won" and "wood" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "won" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "wood" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #205,691 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "won" and "wood" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "won vs wren". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #205,691 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.