Saw a debate on the pronunciation of one and won being the same. Are they the same?

From my understanding, they are the same in most dialects, but not all.

Identical unless you're talking about the currency.

They are pronounced the same

There's an old joke/tongue twister that plays on this similarity about the police being suspicious of cheating at the horse racing. There were two horses called "One-One" and "One-Two". When investigators looked at their previous races, they noticed that every time One-One won one, One-Two won one too! Try saying that ten times fast!

Usually yes. Kind of an interesting side note: Korean currency, the won, o is pronounced a little closer to A when it comes up and you'll hear it pronounced the same as "wan" when Americans say it. It violates normal English phonetics because its a loanword. Funnily enough the English word won originated as wann, with that exact same pronunciation, the past tense wann merged with the past participle wonnen in the fifteen hundreds and became the win/won pair that exists in modern English, with won occupying both past and past participle.

In most varieties of American English, yes, one and won are pronounced the same way.

no in American standard they are different but it is slight. Won the o sound is slightly longer, in one it is shorter. Kind of like Germann short and long o

* [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/one](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/one) * [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/won](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/won) In standard US and UK English, they are pronounced the same. There are some accents where they might differ slightly but I wouldn't be able to tell the difference by ear as a native speaker.

See [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/EnglishLearning/comments/1i3uc5m/are_the_words_won_and_one_pronounced_the_same/). But I would say yes for the General American accent, though it can vary by region. I can't speak for the British.

Depends on the accent

Some US accents pronounce "won" like "wan" to rhyme with "on" or "lawn" while "one" is pronounced like "wuhn" to rhyme with "done" or "fun" I see almost every US comment saying that the US pronounces both words the same but in the Southeast where I grew up I definitely used to hear "won" pronounced like "wan." The difference was distinct and clear and was even clearer with the older folks. But it is common in the US to pronounce both "won" and "one" like "wuhn" to rhyme with "fun" so you'd be fine just going with that pronounciation for both.

My dictionary says no, but my mouth says yes. I consider them homonyms.

As someone who pronounces them differently (Native Speaker, North West England (Manchester)), Won rhymes with Bun, Sun, Run, etc. Whereas One rhymes with Gone, on, shone, etc. I can’t really imagine how you could pronounce them the same way since “Wun” for One and “Wan” for Won both sound really weird to me. I imagine it’s easier for Americans to combine the pronunciations because their O and A sounds are closer in pronunciation cos of the “Caught/Cot merger” and similar sound shifts, so they probably pronounce it like “Waun” or something. According to the replies there are UK accents that merge them so maybe it’s more common than I thought.

Yes, but I would like to say there is/can be a slight difference. Like, the vowel is longer in “won” or something.

They are the same in my accent.

Oof I'm a native speaker...had to say it aloud many times but indeed I do pronounce them differently, ever so slightly.

I didn’t know there were dialects where these are pronounced differently

Yes.

"Won" is exactly the same as "one", unless you're talking about Korean currency. Korean won is pronounced "wawn"

Native Speaker from the Midlands: "One" has the hot vowel \[ɒ\], while "won" has the foot vowel \[ʊ\].

Unrelated, but in 6th grade, our homeroom teacher called our class 20-wonderful/ 201-derful because we were in class 201 lmao.  So one and won sound identical to me. 

I’m from northern England and to me, won rhymes with fun, one rhymes with gone

Depends on the accent https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/one#English

In my accent they're the same. In others (like RP, I believe) they're not.

you look at the phonetics. if they're the same, then they're pronounced the same. if you're not a native speaker and think the mouth is bigger with "won" then you're probably still thinking in your native language and instinctively pronounce words as spelled.

They're generally pronounced the same in most regions.

They are identical for me... (Native English speaker, US) I actually can't figure out how to say them differently.