# ogre vs ours

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### ogre
*noun · IPA /ˈəʊ.ɡə/ · frequency rank #25,506*
A type of brutish giant from folk tales that eats human flesh.

### ours
*pronoun · IPA /ˈaʊəz/ · frequency rank #5,527*
That or those belonging to us.

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