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Went vs Wen - What's the difference?

went | wen |

As nouns the difference between went and wen

is that went is a course; a way, a path; a journey while wen is a cyst on the skin.

As a verb went

is simple past of go.

As a proper noun Wen is

{{surname|common|from=Chinese}} of east Asian derivation.

went

English

Verb

(head)
  • (go)
  • (nonstandard)
  • (archaic) (wend)

    • Derived terms

    * (l), (l) (both archaic)

    Statistics

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.
  • * Chaucer
    • At a turning of a wente .
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
    • But here my wearie teeme, nigh over spent, / Shall breathe it selfe awhile after so long a went .

    Anagrams

    * newt 200 English basic words English irregular simple past forms ----

    wen

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cyst on the skin.
  • * 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden) , Walden:
    • When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
  • * 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon), Gravity's Rainbow :
    • Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens , sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
  • * 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 4:
    • I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a runic letter later replaced by w

    • Anagrams

    *

    Etymology 3

    Noun

  • An enormously congested city.
    • English terms with homophones ----