ouh
\u\
The verdict
“ouh” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,618) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,618
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cri de douleur. → voir ouille
Corpus desk
Index FR-ouh · ouh · French
ouh · rank #19,618 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,618
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ost
Nearest frequency peer: ost (-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 « ouh »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- opèrent
opèrent
80,385 corpus weight
- ost
ost
80,384 corpus weight
- ouh
ouh
80,383 corpus weight
- paies
paies
80,382 corpus weight
- pansement
pansement
80,381 corpus weight
- Paraguay
Paraguay
80,380 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ouh » 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 | ouh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \u\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,618 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ouh »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ouh is neighbouring look-alikes ("ow", "ox", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced \u\. Frequency #19,618 among 1,642 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
ouh has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ow", "ox", "oy", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ouh, spelled O-U-H.
Definition
- 1Cri de douleur. → voir ouille
- 2Raillerie, ou huée de désapprobation, pour conspuer quelqu'un. → voir bouh et hou
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ouh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ouh ! Ça me fait mal !
Ouh ! Malheur à moi !
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).