olor
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,790
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
olor is aSpanishnoun. It means: Conjunto de sensaciones captadas por el sentido del olfato, cuando en la nariz entran las emanaciones transportadas por el aire o por algún líquido. Pronounced [oˈloɾ]. It ranks #2,790 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with or and oro.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olor |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [oˈloɾ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #2,790 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for olor is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [oˈloɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #2,790 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for olor, with forms such as "loor", "ollor", and "olorr". 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, "or", "oro", "oso", 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 olor, spelled O-L-O-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Conjunto de sensaciones captadas por el sentido del olfato, cuando en la nariz entran las emanaciones transportadas por el aire o por algún líquido.
- 2Emanaciones que causan la sensación del olor₁.
- 3Fama.
- 4Indicio por el cual se conoce una cosa.
- 5Esperanza de algo.
- 6Olfato.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: loor,ollor,olorr,olro,oolr
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for olor
Misspelling Variants of "olor"
Frequency rank: #2,790 in Spanish
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