OMG
\ˌoʊ.maɪ.ˈɡɑd\
The verdict
“OMG” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #22,959) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #22,959
- frequency rank, French
- 75,470
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Oh mon Dieu. Exprime une vive émotion (une surprise souvent).
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 | OMG |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \ˌoʊ.maɪ.ˈɡɑd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #22,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “OMG” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OMG is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \ˌoʊ.maɪ.ˈɡɑd\. Frequency #22,959 among 75,470 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Oh mon Dieu. Exprime une vive émotion (une surprise souvent).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for OMG, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is OMG, spelled O-M-G.
Definition
- 1Oh mon Dieu. Exprime une vive émotion (une surprise souvent).
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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Using “OMG”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is O-M-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˌoʊ.maɪ.ˈɡɑd\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “on” - see the side-by-side comparison. OMG vs on
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.