OOO
The verdict
“OOO” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #16,197) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #16,197
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En vacances ou en dehors des horaires de travail, souvent utilisé dans les réponses automatiques aux emails.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ooo · OOO · French
OOO · rank #16,197 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,197
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH occupées
Nearest frequency peer: occupées (-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 « OOO »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- normalisati…
normalisation
83,807 corpus weight
- nègres
nègres
83,806 corpus weight
- occupées
occupées
83,805 corpus weight
- OOO
OOO
83,804 corpus weight
- originelle
originelle
83,803 corpus weight
- partielles
partielles
83,802 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OOO » 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 | OOO |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #16,197 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OOO »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OOO is neighbouring look-alikes ("ou", "or", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #16,197 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "En vacances ou en dehors des horaires de travail, souvent utilisé dans les réponses automatiques aux emails.".
No misspelling variants are generated for OOO in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "or", "os", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is OOO, spelled O-O-O.
Definition
- 1En vacances ou en dehors des horaires de travail, souvent utilisé dans les réponses automatiques aux emails.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how OOO appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An out-of-office message, also called an OOO message or an autoresponder email message, is used when you won’t be able to respond or read emails for a specified period of time.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).