ohm
\om\
The verdict
“ohm” is uncommon French (frequency #55,477 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,477
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité de mesure de résistance électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est la lettre grecque oméga (Ω).
Corpus desk
Index FR-ohm · ohm · French
ohm · rank #55,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,477
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oesophage
Nearest frequency peer: oesophage (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ohm »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- occuperais
occuperais
44,527 corpus weight
- octaves
octaves
44,526 corpus weight
- oesophage
oesophage
44,525 corpus weight
- ohm
ohm
44,524 corpus weight
- oléoducs
oléoducs
44,523 corpus weight
- ombudsman
ombudsman
44,522 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ohm » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ohm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \om\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ohm » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ohm is uncommon French at frequency #55,477 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \om\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Unité de mesure de résistance électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est la lettre grecque oméga (Ω).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ohm, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 ohm, spelled O-H-M.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de résistance électrique du Système international, dont le symbole est la lettre grecque oméga (Ω).
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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