ops
"ops" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ops” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,639) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,639
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - operations
Corpus desk
Index EN-ops · ops · English
ops · rank #9,639 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,639
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Natalie
Nearest frequency peer: Natalie (-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 “ops”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- minimize
minimize
90,366 corpus weight
- Modi
Modi
90,365 corpus weight
- Morocco
Morocco
90,364 corpus weight
- Natalie
Natalie
90,363 corpus weight
- ops
ops
90,362 corpus weight
- ounce
ounce
90,359 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ops” 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 | ops |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ops”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ops is neighbouring look-alikes ("or", "OS", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #9,639 among 1,431 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ops, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "or", "OS", "oz", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is ops, spelled O-P-S.
Definition
- 1operations
- 2operator status
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ops appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Arbiter and I will guard the Ops Center.
They work in spec ops
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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