olivo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,822
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
olivo is aSpanishnoun. It means: (Olea europaea) Árbol perennifolio, longevo, que alcanza hasta 15 m de altura, con copa ancha y tronco grueso, retorcido y a menudo muy corto. Corteza finamente fisurada, de color gris o plateado. ... Pronounced [oˈliβ̞o]. Often confused with opio and olmo.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olivo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈliβ̞o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for olivo is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈliβ̞o]. Corpus data places it at rank #19,822 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for olivo, with forms such as "loivo", "oilvo", and "olibo". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "opio", "olmo", "opino", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is olivo, spelled O-L-I-V-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Olea europaea) Árbol perennifolio, longevo, que alcanza hasta 15 m de altura, con copa ancha y tronco grueso, retorcido y a menudo muy corto. Corteza finamente fisurada, de color gris o plateado. Hojas opuestas, de 2-8 cm de largas, lanceoladas con el ápice ligeramente puntiagudo, enteras, coriáceas, glabras y verde gris oscuras por el haz, más pálidas y densamente escamosas por el envés, más o menos sésiles o con un peciolo muy corto. Su fruto, la aceituna, u oliva, se consume encurtida, marinada o en salmuera y se emplea para la elaboración de aceite.
- 2Color verde cercano al cafe. :* Color:
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: loivo,oilvo,olibo,oliov,olivvo,ollivo,olvio
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Misspelling Variants of "olivo"
Frequency rank: #19,822 in Spanish
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