oim
\wam\
The verdict
“oim” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,694) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,694
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oim · oim · French
oim · rank #48,694 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,694
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH offrirai
Nearest frequency peer: offrirai (-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 « oim »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- occultation
occultation
51,310 corpus weight
- Odilon
Odilon
51,309 corpus weight
- offrirai
offrirai
51,308 corpus weight
- oim
oim
51,307 corpus weight
- oreillons
oreillons
51,306 corpus weight
- orton
orton
51,305 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « oim » 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 | oim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| IPA | \wam\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #48,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « oim »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for oim is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is apronoun pronounced \wam\. Frequency #48,694 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Moi.".
oim has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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's etymology isn't recorded, 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 oim, spelled O-I-M.
Definition
- 1Moi.
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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