oth
"oth" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oth” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,944) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,944
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Obsolete spelling of oath.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oth · oth · English
oth · rank #39,944 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,944
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH OSI
Nearest frequency peer: OSI (-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 “oth”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- orchestrati…
orchestration
60,059 corpus weight
- OSI
OSI
60,058 corpus weight
- oth
oth
60,057 corpus weight
- Ouija
Ouija
60,056 corpus weight
- Palmyra
Palmyra
60,055 corpus weight
- Panamanian
Panamanian
60,054 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “oth” 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 | oth |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “oth”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oth is neighbouring look-alikes ("oz", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #39,944 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Obsolete spelling of oath.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oth in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oz", "ou", "ow", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is oth, spelled O-T-H.
Definition
- 1Obsolete spelling of oath.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how oth appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They bring them wines of Greece and Araby,[*] And daintie spices fetcht from furthest Ynd,[*] To kindle heat of corage privily: And in the wine a solemne oth they bynd 35 T' observe the sacred lawes of armes, that are assynd.
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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