# odds vs Oder

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### odds
*noun · IPA /ɑdz/ · frequency rank #4,471*
The ratio of the probability of an event happening to that of it not happening.

### Oder
*name · frequency rank #36,694*
A river in central Europe, that flows from the Czech Republic through Poland and Germany to the Baltic Sea.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/odds-vs-oder