OH
"oh" is a 2-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“OH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #359) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #359
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of other half: a husband, wife, partner, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oh · OH · English
OH · rank #359 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #359
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH local
Nearest frequency peer: local (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “OH”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- I'll
I'll
99,645 corpus weight
- information
information
99,644 corpus weight
- local
local
99,643 corpus weight
- OH
OH
99,642 corpus weight
- post
post
99,641 corpus weight
- t
t
99,640 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “OH” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OH |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “OH”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OH is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "or", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #359 among 1,431 “O” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for OH, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "or", "OK", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is OH, spelled O-H.
Definition
- 1Initialism of other half: a husband, wife, partner, etc.
- 2Initialism of observation helicopter.
- 3Initialism of overheard; a post whose contents were overheard by its author.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
OH: "We should just burn the whole place down"
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.