OGM
\o.ʒe.ɛm\
The verdict
“OGM” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #13,223) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #13,223
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisme affecté, à la suite d’une manipulation effectuée par l’homme, d’un ou plusieurs gènes qu’il ne possède pas naturellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ogm · OGM · French
OGM · rank #13,223 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,223
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obsèques
Nearest frequency peer: obsèques (-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 « OGM »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- neuves
neuves
86,782 corpus weight
- obsèques
obsèques
86,779 corpus weight
- OGM
OGM
86,778 corpus weight
- originel
originel
86,777 corpus weight
- other
other
86,776 corpus weight
- parcelle
parcelle
86,775 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OGM » 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 | OGM |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.ʒe.ɛm\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #13,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OGM »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OGM is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \o.ʒe.ɛm\. Frequency #13,223 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Organisme affecté, à la suite d’une manipulation effectuée par l’homme, d’un ou plusieurs gènes qu’il ne possède pas naturellement.".
OGM doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is OGM, spelled O-G-M.
Definition
- 1Organisme affecté, à la suite d’une manipulation effectuée par l’homme, d’un ou plusieurs gènes qu’il ne possède pas naturellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how OGM appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Après le feu vert argentin au premier blé OGM jamais conçu, les semenciers européens aimeraient utiliser des outils de sélection génétique plus rapides. Et ce, pour adapter les plantes au changement climatique et à la sécheresse.
Les OGM s’affranchissent des frontières entre genres et espèces.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).