One and won are homophones in English and are often confused; they are both pronounced /wʌn/ but have different spellings and their meanings are completely different.
one
One is the number 1.
They had three sons and one daughter.
Our team beat them one-nil.
One also have a wide range of other meanings and is used as a determiner, a pronoun and an adjective.
One person I hate is Russ.
His one regret is that he has never learned a language.
Some of them couldn’t eat a thing. One couldn’t even drink.
won
Won is the past tense and past participle of ‘win’.
She won bronze for Great Britain in the European Championships.
British Aerospace has won an order worth 340 million dollars.
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