ometvsôtéConfusable pair

Which to use

“omet” and “ôté” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#33,807
“omet” frequency rank
#31,318
“ôté” frequency rank
65125
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature omet ôté
Definition Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de omettre. Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe ôter.

Where the eye mixes omet and ôté

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 1 letter in sequence.

4 ch
omet
3 ch
ôté

Look-alike desk: omet vs ôté

A purely visual mix-up. omet (\ɔ.mɛ\) and ôté (\o.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 65125, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

omet is recorded at frequency rank #33,807, classified as averb, pronounced \ɔ.mɛ\. ôté is at rank #31,318, tagged as averb, pronounced \o.te\.

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 65125, this pair ranks #73,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of omet vs ôté

Shared letters: t. Private to "omet": emo. Private to "ôté": éô.

"omet" · 4 letters · shape VCVC  ·  "ôté" · 3 letters · shape VCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ometmoet · oemt · omett · ommet · omte

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "omet" for "ôté" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ɔ.mɛ\ versus \o.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "omet" vs "ôté" - which ranks higher?
"ôté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,318 in our French list, against #33,807 for "omet". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "omet" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ôté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #73,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "omet" and "ôté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "och vs ôté". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #73,735 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