OMS
[ˈõms]
The verdict
“OMS” is a moderately-common Spanish word, ranked #12,882 in Spanish word frequency and used as a noun.
- #12,882
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 3
- letters
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Organismo de la organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) especializado en gestionar políticas de prevención, promoción e intervención en salud a nivel mundial.
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 | OMS |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈõms] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “OMS” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for OMS is 3 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈõms]. Corpus data places it at rank #12,882 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Organismo de la organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) especializado en gestionar políticas de prevención, promoción e intervención en salud a nivel mundial.".
No misspelling variants are generated for OMS in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "on", "or", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is OMS, spelled O-M-S.
Definition
- 1Organismo de la organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) especializado en gestionar políticas de prevención, promoción e intervención en salud a nivel mundial.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “OMS”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-M-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈõms] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “os” - see the side-by-side comparison. OMS vs os
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.