olivier
\ɔ.li.vje\
The verdict
“olivier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,531. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,531
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre de la famille des Oleaceae ou oléacées, dont le feuillage est toujours vert et qui porte les olives.
Corpus desk
Index FR-olivier · olivier · French
olivier · rank #2,531 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,531
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oeil
Nearest frequency peer: oeil (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « olivier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- marchés
marchés
97,473 corpus weight
- nulle
nulle
97,472 corpus weight
- oeil
oeil
97,471 corpus weight
- olivier
olivier
97,470 corpus weight
- partenaire
partenaire
97,469 corpus weight
- particuliers
particuliers
97,468 corpus weight
What this shows « olivier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olivier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.li.vje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,531 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « olivier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around olivier (IPA \ɔ.li.vje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,531 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for olivier, with forms such as "loivier", "oilvier", and "oliiver". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "oliviers", "Ollivier", "olive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is olivier, spelled O-L-I-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arbre de la famille des Oleaceae ou oléacées, dont le feuillage est toujours vert et qui porte les olives.
- 2Le bois de cet arbre.
- 3Feuilles d’olivier.
- 4Personne chargée de contrôler au nom d’un propriétaire l’opération d’extraction de l’huile d’olive.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how olivier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’olivier serait originaire de Syrie où sa culture a été constatée au XVᵉ siècle av. J.-C. Après un passage en Grèce, il a été introduit en Italie puis en Provence par les Phocéens, vers 680 av. J.-C.
Des landes, des rocs stériles, çà et là une bande de pâturage aromatique et dru, quelques champs pierreux, partout des oliviers : on se croirait dans notre Provence.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- loivier
- oilvier
- oliiver
- oliveir
- olivierr
- olivire
- olivvier
- olviier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of olivier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).