og
\ɔːɣ\
The verdict
“og” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,889) as a conjunction. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,889
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Et, conjonction exprimant l’addition.
Corpus desk
Index FR-og · og · French
og · rank #29,889 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,889
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH odéon
Nearest frequency peer: odéon (-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 « og »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- nuggets
nuggets
70,115 corpus weight
- obligeait
obligeait
70,114 corpus weight
- odéon
odéon
70,113 corpus weight
- og
og
70,112 corpus weight
- Olsen
Olsen
70,111 corpus weight
- oléoduc
oléoduc
70,110 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « og » 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 | og |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Conjunction |
| IPA | \ɔːɣ\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #29,889 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « og »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for og is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is aconjunction pronounced \ɔːɣ\. Frequency #29,889 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Et, conjonction exprimant l’addition.".
No misspelling variants are generated for og in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is og, spelled O-G.
Definition
- 1Et, conjonction exprimant l’addition.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how og appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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.