od
\ɔd\
The verdict
“od” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,066) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,066
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désigne un fluide, sorte de force vitale qui selon Karl von Reichenbach, émanerait des êtres humains.
Corpus desk
Index FR-od · od · French
od · rank #25,066 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,066
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH octroyer
Nearest frequency peer: octroyer (-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 « od »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- obscurs
obscurs
74,938 corpus weight
- obèses
obèses
74,937 corpus weight
- octroyer
octroyer
74,936 corpus weight
- od
od
74,935 corpus weight
- odorat
odorat
74,934 corpus weight
- Ouattara
Ouattara
74,933 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « od » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | od |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔd\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #25,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « od »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for od is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɔd\. Frequency #25,066 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Désigne un fluide, sorte de force vitale qui selon Karl von Reichenbach, émanerait des êtres humains.".
od doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is od, spelled O-D.
Definition
- 1Désigne un fluide, sorte de force vitale qui selon Karl von Reichenbach, émanerait des êtres humains.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how od appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Od est le mot capable d’exprimer la dynamique d’une force qui, avec une puissance qui ne peut être interrompue, pénètre rapidement chaque chose et court à travers tout l’univers.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.