omvsourWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: om is a pronoun, our is a determiner, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“om” is a pronoun and “our” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,092
“om” frequency rank
#9,528
“our” frequency rank
16620
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature om our
Definition On. Notre, nos

Letter map: om vs our

Shared letters muted; letters that set om and our apart highlighted. Shared run: 1.

2 ch
om
3 ch
our

Part-of-speech tell for om / our

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: om is apronoun and ouradeterminer. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16620, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

om is recorded at frequency rank #7,092, classified as apron. our is at rank #9,528, tagged as adet, pronounced \aʊɚ\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 16620, this pair ranks #386,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of om vs our

Shared letters: o. Private to "om": m. Private to "our": ru.

"om" · 2 letters · shape VC  ·  "our" · 3 letters · shape VVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "om" and "our" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "om" is a pronoun and "our" a determiner, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "om" or "our" show up more?
"om" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,092 in our French list, against #9,528 for "our". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "om" vs "our" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "om" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "our" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #386,989 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "om" and "our" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "och vs our". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #386,989 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list