Ollivier
\ɔ.li.vje\
The verdict
“Ollivier” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,951
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ollivier · Ollivier · French
Ollivier · rank #38,951 · 8 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,951
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH obélisque
Nearest frequency peer: obélisque (-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 « Ollivier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obligez
obligez
61,053 corpus weight
- obscènes
obscènes
61,052 corpus weight
- obélisque
obélisque
61,051 corpus weight
- Ollivier
Ollivier
61,050 corpus weight
- olympien
olympien
61,049 corpus weight
- optent
optent
61,048 corpus weight
What this shows « Ollivier » 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 | Ollivier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔ.li.vje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,951 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ollivier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Ollivier (IPA \ɔ.li.vje\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #38,951 among 1,642 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ollivier, with forms such as "lolivier", "olilvier", and "olliiver". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Oliver", "olivier", "oliviers", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Ollivier, spelled O-L-L-I-V-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
- 2Émile Ollivier, homme d'État et académicien français (1825-1913).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ollivier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nos reportages ont fait état de nombreuses réunions internes au restaurant aux frais des contribuables par les ex-présidentes Dominique Ollivier et Isabelle Beaulieu, ainsi que les secrétaires généraux Luc Doray et Guy Grenier.
M. Ollivier nous avait bien déjà parlé d’un rempart de poitrines humaines, parole féroce, si elle n’eût été irréfléchie. Les poitrines humaines ont beau battre pour la patrie, le canon les traverse, et jamais un ingénieur militaire ne les assimilera à des moellons.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lolivier
- olilvier
- olliiver
- olliveir
- ollivierr
- ollivire
- ollivvier
- ollviier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ollivier - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).