olmo
\ˈɔl.mo\
The verdict
“olmo” is uncommon French (frequency #81,405 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,405
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Orme, genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.
Corpus desk
Index FR-olmo · olmo · French
olmo · rank #81,405 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,405
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH OIAC
Nearest frequency peer: OIAC (-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 « olmo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- octogonal
octogonal
18,600 corpus weight
- offusquée
offusquée
18,598 corpus weight
- OIAC
OIAC
18,597 corpus weight
- olmo
olmo
18,596 corpus weight
- onanisme
onanisme
18,595 corpus weight
- OPJ
OPJ
18,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « olmo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olmo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɔl.mo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « olmo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
olmo is uncommon French at frequency #81,405 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɔl.mo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Orme, genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for olmo, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 olmo, spelled O-L-M-O.
Definition
- 1Orme, genre de grands arbres à feuilles caduques, simples, doublement dentées, et aux fruits en samares.
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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