oes
"oes" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oes” is uncommon English (frequency #71,753 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,753
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of oe
Corpus desk
Index EN-oes · oes · English
oes · rank #71,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,753
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH octet
Nearest frequency peer: octet (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “oes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nubile
nubile
28,255 corpus weight
- nucleoside
nucleoside
28,254 corpus weight
- O'Donovan
O'Donovan
28,251 corpus weight
- octet
octet
28,249 corpus weight
- oes
oes
28,248 corpus weight
- osteopathy
osteopathy
28,239 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “oes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oes is uncommon English at frequency #71,753 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oes, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is oes, spelled O-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of oe
- 2plural of o, the name of the letter O.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A, aes; Bee, Bees; Cee, Cees; Dee, Dees; E, Ees; Eff, Effs; Gee, Gees; Aitch, Aitches; I, Ies; Jay, Jays; [...] En, Ens; O, Oes; Pee, Pees; Kue, Kues; Ar, Ars; […] Wy, Wies; Zed, Zeds.
Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes, / Deep-chested music.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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