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
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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 ...
Corpus desk
Index ES-ole · olé · Spanish
olé · rank #24,251 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,251
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH oportunas
Nearest frequency peer: oportunas (+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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “olé”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- nodo
nodo
75,754 corpus weight
- obsesionada
obsesionada
75,752 corpus weight
- olé
olé
75,750 corpus weight
- oportunas
oportunas
75,749 corpus weight
- oportunista
oportunista
75,748 corpus weight
- oportunistas
oportunistas
75,747 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “olé” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “olé”
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 1,467 “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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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).