osm
\ɔsm̥\
The verdict
“osm” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #41,435) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #41,435
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Osmium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-osm · osm · French
osm · rank #41,435 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,435
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH orthographes
Nearest frequency peer: orthographes (-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 « osm »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- oppresseur
oppresseur
58,569 corpus weight
- orignal
orignal
58,568 corpus weight
- orthographes
orthographes
58,567 corpus weight
- osm
osm
58,566 corpus weight
- osseuses
osseuses
58,565 corpus weight
- oubliait
oubliait
58,564 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « osm » 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 | osm |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔsm̥\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #41,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « osm »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for osm is neighbouring look-alikes ("ou", "ow", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɔsm̥\. Frequency #41,435 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Osmium.".
osm doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ou", "ow", "ox", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is osm, spelled O-S-M.
Definition
- 1Osmium.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).