oh vs what

oh

intj
  • Expression of surprise. 

  • A word to precede an added comment or afterthought. 

  • A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark. 

  • An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment. 

  • Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe. 

  • Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization. 

  • Expression of pain. See ouch. 

  • Expression of mild scepticism. 

  • A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary. 

  • Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic). 

  • Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music. 

verb
  • To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc. 

noun
  • the letter O, o (more commonly spelled o) 

  • An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc. 

  • the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech) 

what

intj
  • An expression of surprise or disbelief. 

  • Indicating a guess or approximation, or a pause to try to recall information. 

  • What! That’s amazing! 

  • What did you say? I beg your pardon? 

  • What do you want? An abrupt, usually unfriendly enquiry as to what a person desires. 

det
  • Any ... that; all ... that; whatever. 

  • Used to form exclamations. 

  • Which, especially which of an open-ended set of possibilities. 

  • Emphasises that something is noteworthy or remarkable in quality or degree, in either a good or bad way; may be used in combination with certain other determiners, especially 'a', less often 'some'. 

  • Which; the ... that. 

adv
  • In what way; to what extent. 

  • Used before a prepositional phrase to emphasise that something is taken into consideration as a cause or reason; usually used in combination with 'with' (see what with), and much less commonly with other prepositions. 

noun
  • Something that is addressed by what, as opposed to a person, addressed by who. 

  • The identity of a thing, as an answer to a question of what. 

pron
  • That which; those that; the thing(s) that. 

  • That; which; who. 

  • Anything that; all that; whatever. 

  • Which thing, event, circumstance, etc.: used in asking for the specification of an identity, quantity, quality, etc. 

particle
  • Emphasizes the truth of an assertion made to contradict an evidently false assumption held by the listener. 

How often have the words oh and what occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )