Ollier
The verdict
“Ollier” is uncommon French (frequency #61,750 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,750
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ollier · Ollier · French
Ollier · rank #61,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,750
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH oligocène
Nearest frequency peer: oligocène (-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 « Ollier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- octogonale
octogonale
38,256 corpus weight
- Ogooué
Ogooué
38,255 corpus weight
- oligocène
oligocène
38,252 corpus weight
- Ollier
Ollier
38,251 corpus weight
- orthophonie
orthophonie
38,248 corpus weight
- Orval
Orval
38,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ollier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ollier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ollier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ollier is uncommon French at frequency #61,750 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Ollier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ollier, spelled O-L-L-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ollier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui-ci réunissait un échantillon de députés de tous bords, allant de gaullistes proarabes comme Daniel Garrigue et Patrick Ollier à des socialistes proches des thèses laïques du régime irakien tel Jean-Pierre Chevènement.
Ce dimanche 18 juin à 14 h 30, à la salle des fêtes, la commune de Chamberet va accueillir l’élection de la Super Mamie Corrèze 2023, animé par Mathieu Martinie, en présence de la fondatrice Fabienne Ollier.
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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