och

conj

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The verdict

“och” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,829) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#49,829
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Et.

Corpus desk

Index FR-och · och · French

och · rank #49,829 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,829
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH néonazis

Nearest frequency peer: néonazis (-1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « och »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « och » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

och vs on
33% similar
och vs ou
33% similar
och vs or
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for och
PropertyValue
Headwordoch
LanguageFrench
Part of speechConjunction
Letters3
Frequency rank#49,829
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « och »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).ochse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « néonazis » (#49,828), « néologismes » (#49,827), « ondulations » (#49,831). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « och » est au #49,829. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for och is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction. Frequency #49,829 among 1,642 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for och, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is och, spelled O-C-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Et.
  2. 2
    Ni.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how och appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Äta och dricka.
  2. Han tog detta steg och jag gillade honom det.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "och"?
"och" is spelled O-C-H.
What does "och" mean?
As a conjunction, "och" means: Et.
What words are commonly confused with "och"?
"och" is commonly confused with "on", "ou", "or". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "och" come from?
"och" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "och", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

nop#49,823nis#49,821nga#49,819MWh#49,807

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list