olimpíada
[olĩmˈpiað̞a]
The verdict
“olimpíada” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,753 among 10,276 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,753
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 10,276
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Fiesta o juegos que se hacían cada cuatro años en Olimpia (Grecia) y que incluía competiciones atléticas y artísticas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olimpíada |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [olĩmˈpiað̞a] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #98,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “olimpíada” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
olimpíada is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,753 among 10,276 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [olĩmˈpiað̞a]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for olimpíada in our index, 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 its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 olimpíada, spelled O-L-I-M-P-Í-A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Fiesta o juegos que se hacían cada cuatro años en Olimpia (Grecia) y que incluía competiciones atléticas y artísticas.
- 2Competición internacional de juegos deportivos que se celebra cada cuatro años en un lugar señalado de antemano.
- 3Período de cuatro años usado para el cómputo del tiempo en la antigua Olimpia.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “olimpíada”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is O-L-I-M-P-Í-A-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.