olían
[oˈliãn]
The verdict
“olían” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #73,916 among 1,467 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,916
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,467
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oler.
Corpus desk
Index ES-olian · olían · Spanish
olían · rank #73,916 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,916
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,467
- PHOTO-FINISH oncológicos
Nearest frequency peer: oncológicos (+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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “olían”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- ocuparían
ocuparían
26,089 corpus weight
- olían
olían
26,085 corpus weight
- oncológicos
oncológicos
26,084 corpus weight
- onomástica
onomástica
26,083 corpus weight
- orejeras
orejeras
26,082 corpus weight
- orga
orga
26,081 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “olían” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olían |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [oˈliãn] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,916 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “olían” en español
Rare enough to double-check
olían is uncommon Spanish at frequency #73,916 among 1,467 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [oˈliãn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oler.".
No misspelling variants are generated for olían in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is olían, spelled O-L-Í-A-N.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del plural (ellos, ellas; ustedes, 2.ª persona) del pretérito imperfecto de indicativo de oler.
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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