OMS
\o.ɛm.ɛs\
The verdict
“OMS” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #12,207) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #12,207
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Organisation mondiale de la santé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-oms · OMS · French
OMS · rank #12,207 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,207
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH nées
Nearest frequency peer: nées (-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 « OMS »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- narration
narration
87,797 corpus weight
- ninja
ninja
87,796 corpus weight
- nées
nées
87,795 corpus weight
- OMS
OMS
87,794 corpus weight
- optimiser
optimiser
87,793 corpus weight
- oublient
oublient
87,792 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OMS » 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 | OMS |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.ɛm.ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #12,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OMS »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OMS is neighbouring look-alikes ("on", "ou", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \o.ɛm.ɛs\. Frequency #12,207 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Organisation mondiale de la santé.".
OMS has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is OMS, spelled O-M-S.
Definition
- 1Organisation mondiale de la santé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how OMS appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 2018, les états membres de l’OMS se sont mis d’accord sur une feuille de route visant à réduire la prévalence de l’inactivité physique chez les ados de 15 % d’ici à 2030.
Dès le début juillet, des centaines d’experts sonnaient pourtant très publiquement l’alarme auprès de l’OMS sur la propagation possible de la COVID-19 par aérosols.
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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