Oma
/oʊ.mɑ/
"oma" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Oma” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,802) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,802
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A township in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oma · Oma · English
Oma · rank #47,802 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,802
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH ombre
Nearest frequency peer: ombre (+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 “Oma”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- nooks
nooks
52,203 corpus weight
- nostra
nostra
52,202 corpus weight
- nudging
nudging
52,201 corpus weight
- Oma
Oma
52,199 corpus weight
- ombre
ombre
52,198 corpus weight
- Oran
Oran
52,195 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “Oma” 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 | Oma |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /oʊ.mɑ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “Oma”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Oma is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "or", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced /oʊ.mɑ/. Frequency #47,802 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Gloss: "A township in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.".
Oma has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "or", "op", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Tibetan འོ་མ ('o ma). The correct English form is Oma, spelled O-M-A.
Definition
- 1A township in Gêrzê County, Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Oma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Reach Wuma (Öma) in 3-4 hr (90 km) from Gerze.
About 33 genus 47 species corals were discovered in the so-called "Xiala Formation(Ft)" in north of Oma Village, Gêrzê County, Tibet.
Etymology
From Tibetan འོ་མ ('o ma).
Synonyms
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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