OVH
\o.ve.aʃ\
The verdict
“OVH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,655) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,655
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Entreprise française qui travaille dans le secteur d’Internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ovh · OVH · French
OVH · rank #34,655 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,655
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ovaire
Nearest frequency peer: ovaire (-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 « OVH »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- orifices
orifices
65,350 corpus weight
- ouch
ouch
65,348 corpus weight
- ovaire
ovaire
65,347 corpus weight
- OVH
OVH
65,346 corpus weight
- paléontolog…
paléontologie
65,344 corpus weight
- partialité
partialité
65,343 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « OVH » 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 | OVH |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \o.ve.aʃ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,655 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « OVH »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for OVH is neighbouring look-alikes ("ow", "ox", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \o.ve.aʃ\. Frequency #34,655 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Gloss: "Entreprise française qui travaille dans le secteur d’Internet.".
OVH has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ow", "ox", "oy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is OVH, spelled O-V-H.
Definition
- 1Entreprise française qui travaille dans le secteur d’Internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how OVH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les 9 500 m² de bureaux, déjà réservés à l’entreprise d’informatique OVH, sont connus pour s’adapter à d’éventuels changements.
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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).