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
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oh mon Dieu. Exprime une vive émotion (une surprise souvent).
Corpus desk
Index FR-omg · OMG · French
OMG · rank #22,959 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,959
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OMC
Nearest frequency peer: OMC (-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 « OMG »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- 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
- palpable
palpable
77,040 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OMG » 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 | 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) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OMG »
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 1,642 “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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how OMG appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
OMG! Actress and mathematician Danica McKellar wants girls to know that being good at numbers is cool.
Those Cheekbones! That Wind-Swept Hair! OMG, It’s Zac Efron!
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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