OHS
"ohs" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“OHS” is uncommon English (frequency #60,322 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,322
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of occupational health and safety.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ohs · OHS · English
OHS · rank #60,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,322
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Olathe
Nearest frequency peer: Olathe (+2 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 “OHS”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nonspecific
nonspecific
39,685 corpus weight
- Noreen
Noreen
39,684 corpus weight
- O'Donoghue
O'Donoghue
39,682 corpus weight
- OHS
OHS
39,679 corpus weight
- Olathe
Olathe
39,677 corpus weight
- ordo
ordo
39,674 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “OHS” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | OHS |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #60,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “OHS” in English
Rare enough to double-check
OHS is uncommon English at frequency #60,322 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Initialism of occupational health and safety.".
OHS has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is OHS, spelled O-H-S.
Definition
- 1Initialism of occupational health and safety.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OHS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: IH
This word in other languages
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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