olé
[oˈle]
The verdict
“olé” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,251) as an interjection. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,251
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10,276
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Denota alegría, entusiasmo o satisfacción. Usada tradicionalmente en manifestaciones folclóricas, ha llegado a convertirse por extensión en una expresión, sin aparente significado, de un estado de ...
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 | olé |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | [oˈle] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “olé” sits in Spanish frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for olé is neighbouring look-alikes ("os", "on", …), not just typos; it is aninterjection pronounced [oˈle]. Frequency #24,251 among 10,276 “O” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
olé has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "os", "on", "or", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct Spanish form is olé, spelled O-L-É.
Definition
- 1Denota alegría, entusiasmo o satisfacción. Usada tradicionalmente en manifestaciones folclóricas, ha llegado a convertirse por extensión en una expresión, sin aparente significado, de un estado de ánimo jocoso.
- 2Usada para aclamar o alentar a un equipo.
Synonyms
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “olé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-L-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [oˈle] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “os” - see the side-by-side comparison. olé vs os
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.