olim
\o.lim\
The verdict
“olim” is uncommon French (frequency #78,697 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,697
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien registre du parlement de Paris, ou ouvrage du même genre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-olim · olim · French
olim · rank #78,697 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,697
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH olin
Nearest frequency peer: olin (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « olim »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- obole
obole
21,309 corpus weight
- olim
olim
21,304 corpus weight
- olin
olin
21,303 corpus weight
- onda
onda
21,302 corpus weight
- Onésime
Onésime
21,301 corpus weight
- OPCA
OPCA
21,300 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « olim » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olim |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \o.lim\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #78,697 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « olim » en français
Rare enough to double-check
olim is uncommon French at frequency #78,697 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \o.lim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien registre du parlement de Paris, ou ouvrage du même genre.".
olim doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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.
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 French form is olim, spelled O-L-I-M.
Definition
- 1Ancien registre du parlement de Paris, ou ouvrage du même genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how olim appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les olim furent commencés en mil trois cent treize par Montluc, greffier du Parlement. Consulter les olim.
Il sortit d’un bahut un énorme olim relié de velours vert, tout pisseux, tout crasseux, qui avait dû passer entre de multiples mains pas toujours très propres.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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