ohms
\om\
The verdict
“ohms” is uncommon French (frequency #74,244 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,244
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ohm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ohms · ohms · French
ohms · rank #74,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,244
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH officieuses
Nearest frequency peer: officieuses (-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 « ohms »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- occupante
occupante
25,761 corpus weight
- officieuses
officieuses
25,758 corpus weight
- ohms
ohms
25,757 corpus weight
- olivine
olivine
25,756 corpus weight
- onn
onn
25,755 corpus weight
- Onofrio
Onofrio
25,754 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ohms » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ohms |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \om\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ohms » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ohms is uncommon French at frequency #74,244 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \om\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ohm.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for ohms in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ohms, spelled O-H-M-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ohm.
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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