Olympiade
[olʏmˈpi̯aːdə]
The verdict
“Olympiade” has 13 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #24,857. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,857
- frequency rank, German
- 1,007
- “O” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - die Olympischen Spiele (ein großer internationaler sportlicher Wettkampf in etlichen Disziplinen)
Corpus desk
Index DE-olympiade · Olympiade · German
Olympiade · rank #24,857 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #24,857
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,007
- PHOTO-FINISH offs
Nearest frequency peer: offs (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Olympiade“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- niedergelas…
niedergelassen
75,147 corpus weight
- Notlage
Notlage
75,146 corpus weight
- offs
offs
75,145 corpus weight
- Olympiade
Olympiade
75,144 corpus weight
- Opium
Opium
75,143 corpus weight
- Ortsgruppe
Ortsgruppe
75,141 corpus weight
What this shows „Olympiade“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Olympiade |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [olʏmˈpi̯aːdə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,857 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Olympiade“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Olympiade (IPA [olʏmˈpi̯aːdə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,857 among 1,007 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Olympiade, with forms such as "loympiade", "ollympiade", and "olmypiade". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Olympia", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Olympiade, spelled O-L-Y-M-P-I-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1die Olympischen Spiele (ein großer internationaler sportlicher Wettkampf in etlichen Disziplinen)
- 2Zeitspanne von vier Jahren (zwischen den Olympischen Spielen)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Olympiade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Viele Sportler nehmen an der Olympiade teil.
„Anfang der siebziger Jahre tat sich allerhand in der Stadt, wegen der bevorstehenden Olympiade.“
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- loympiade
- ollympiade
- olmypiade
- olymipade
- olymmpiade
- olympaide
- olympiadde
- olympiaed
- olympidae
- olymppiade
- olypmiade
- olyympiade
- oylmpiade
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Olympiade - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Olympiade", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).