olivine
\ɔ.li.vin\
The verdict
“olivine” is uncommon French (frequency #74,245 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,245
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Minéral de couleur verdâtre du groupe des silicates, sous-groupe des nésosilicates qui cristallise dans le système orthorhombique; considéré en joaillerie comme une pierre fine (semi-précieuse).
Corpus desk
Index FR-olivine · olivine · French
olivine · rank #74,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,245
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH ohms
Nearest frequency peer: ohms (-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 « olivine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- officieuses
officieuses
25,758 corpus weight
- ohms
ohms
25,757 corpus weight
- olivine
olivine
25,756 corpus weight
- onn
onn
25,755 corpus weight
- Onofrio
Onofrio
25,754 corpus weight
- orangis
orangis
25,753 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « olivine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olivine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.li.vin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « olivine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
olivine is uncommon French at frequency #74,245 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.li.vin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Minéral de couleur verdâtre du groupe des silicates, sous-groupe des nésosilicates qui cristallise dans le système orthorhombique; considéré en joaillerie comme une pierre fine (semi-précieuse).".
olivine doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is olivine, spelled O-L-I-V-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Minéral de couleur verdâtre du groupe des silicates, sous-groupe des nésosilicates qui cristallise dans le système orthorhombique; considéré en joaillerie comme une pierre fine (semi-précieuse).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how olivine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet élément-trace est aussi présent dans les émeraudes, le grenat-pyrope et l’olivine.
La source la plus considérable est le manteau terrestre, où les péridotites sont justement formées de minéraux ferro-magnésiens comme les olivines et les pyroxènes.
Synonyms
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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