OMC
\o.ɛm.se\
The verdict
“OMC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,958) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,958
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation mondiale du commerce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-omc · OMC · French
OMC · rank #22,958 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,958
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH Novak
Nearest frequency peer: Novak (-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 « OMC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- nourrice
nourrice
77,046 corpus weight
- nourrie
nourrie
77,045 corpus weight
- Novak
Novak
77,044 corpus weight
- OMC
OMC
77,043 corpus weight
- OMG
OMG
77,042 corpus weight
- organisait
organisait
77,041 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OMC » 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 | OMC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.ɛm.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OMC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OMC is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \o.ɛm.se\. Frequency #22,958 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Organisation mondiale du commerce.".
No misspelling variants are generated for OMC in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "on", "ou", "or", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is OMC, spelled O-M-C.
Definition
- 1Organisation mondiale du commerce.
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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