ohm
French, noun/om/
ohm is spelled O-H-M (3 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ohm is a French masculine noun meaning “ohm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de résistance électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est la lettre grecque…”.
What does ohm mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineohm
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure de résistance électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est la lettre grecque oméga (Ω).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ohm
- ohms plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce ohm?
- /om/
- \om\
- [om]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to ohm
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ohm in French?
ohm appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).