Ohio
\o.a.jo\
The verdict
“Ohio” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,104) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,104
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve coulant de la Pennsylvanie au Mississippi ayant son confluent en Illinois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ohio · Ohio · French
Ohio · rank #14,104 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,104
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH odieux
Nearest frequency peer: odieux (-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 « Ohio »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- nordiques
nordiques
85,900 corpus weight
- nourrissent
nourrissent
85,899 corpus weight
- odieux
odieux
85,898 corpus weight
- Ohio
Ohio
85,897 corpus weight
- opposées
opposées
85,896 corpus weight
- oups
oups
85,895 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Ohio » 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 | Ohio |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.a.jo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #14,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Ohio »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ohio is neighbouring look-alikes ("oui", "oie", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \o.a.jo\. Frequency #14,104 among 1,642 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ohio, with forms such as "hoio", "ohhio", and "ohoi". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "oui", "oie", "oil", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Ohio, spelled O-H-I-O.
Definition
- 1Fleuve coulant de la Pennsylvanie au Mississippi ayant son confluent en Illinois.
- 2Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique (code postal OH), bordé par le Michigan au nord-ouest, le lac Érié au nord, la Pennsylvanie au nord-est, la Virginie-Occidentale au sud-est, le Kentucky au sud-ouest, et l’Indiana à l’ouest. Sa capitale est Columbus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ohio appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Ohio [est une] grande rivière de l’Amérique septentrionale dans la nouvelle France : elle est ainsi nommée par les Iroquois ; & ce nom, dit-on, marque sa beauté. Elle a ses sources à l’orient du lac Erié, baigne les Tongoria, reçoit dans son sein une autre riviere nommée Ouabache, ou de saint Jérome ; & enfin accrue de nouveau par la riviere des Casquin…
Je vis en Ohio.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hoio
- ohhio
- ohoi
- oiho
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ohio - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).