won
Portuguese, noun/ˈwõ/
won is spelled W-O-N (3 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 16,696th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Won is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “won (unit of currency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “moeda tanto da Coreia do Norte (simbolizada por Wn) como da Coreia do Sul (simbolizada por W), dividida em…”.
What does won mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewon (unit of currency)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. moeda tanto da Coreia do Norte (simbolizada por Wn) como da Coreia do Sul (simbolizada por W), dividida em 100 chon
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of won
- wons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce won?
- Brazil /ˈwõ/
- Portugal /ˈwon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is won in Portuguese?
won appears 3.2 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).