oleic
/əʊˈliː.ɪk/
"oleic" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oleic” is uncommon English (frequency #76,183 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,183
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of or pertaining to oil, especially to vegetable oil.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oleic · oleic · English
oleic · rank #76,183 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,183
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 15,494
- PHOTO-FINISH Okoye
Nearest frequency peer: Okoye (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “oleic”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Okayama
Okayama
23,820 corpus weight
- Okoye
Okoye
23,819 corpus weight
- oleic
oleic
23,818 corpus weight
- Omid
Omid
23,816 corpus weight
- operand
operand
23,815 corpus weight
- Oporto
Oporto
23,814 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “oleic” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oleic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /əʊˈliː.ɪk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76,183 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “oleic” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
oleic is uncommon English at frequency #76,183 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /əʊˈliː.ɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for oleic, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin oleum (“oil”), + -ic. The correct English form is oleic, spelled O-L-E-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or pertaining to oil, especially to vegetable oil.
- 2Of or pertaining to oleic acid or its derivatives.
Etymology
From Latin oleum (“oil”), + -ic.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.