# Oreo

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɔɹioʊ/ · frequency rank #30,521

## Definitions
1. A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.
2. A black person who has overly assimilated into white culture, a black race traitor.

## Etymology
Brand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Etymology section of Wikipedia's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated black people, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".

## Easily confused with
- **owe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-owe)
- **org** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-org)
- **Orr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-orr)
- **Ori** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-ori)
- **oso** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-oso)
- **Ors** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-ors)
- **over** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-over)
- **oven** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-oven)
- **Owen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-owen)
- **owed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-owed)
- **otto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-otto)
- **Oslo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-oslo)
- **orgy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-orgy)
- **ores** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-ores)
- **oxen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-oxen)
- **Orion** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-orion)
- **Orton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-orton)
- **Orson** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oreo-vs-orson)
- **or** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/or-vs-oreo)
- **oo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oo-vs-oreo)

## Common misspellings (4)
`oero`, `oroe`, `orreo`, `roeo`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/oreo