olympiade

\ɔ.lɛ̃.pjad\

/\ɔ.lɛ̃.pjad\/ noun

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The verdict

“olympiade” is uncommon French (frequency #51,006 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,006
frequency rank, French
1,642
“O” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace de quatre ans qui s’écoulait d’une célébration des jeux olympiques à une autre. Elle est la base de la chronologie du monde grec à partir d’Alexandre le Grand.

Corpus desk

Index FR-olympiade · olympiade · French

olympiade · rank #51,006 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,006
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,642
  • PHOTO-FINISH opprimée

Nearest frequency peer: opprimée (+2 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 « olympiade »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « olympiade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for olympiade
PropertyValue
Headwordolympiade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɔ.lɛ̃.pjad\
Letters9
Frequency rank#51,006
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « olympiade » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.olympiadetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « opprimée » (#51,008), « officiant » (#51,003), « odes » (#51,002). Parmi 1,642 lemmes en « O », « olympiade » est au #51,006. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

olympiade is uncommon French at frequency #51,006 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɔ.lɛ̃.pjad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for olympiade, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is olympiade, spelled O-L-Y-M-P-I-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espace de quatre ans qui s’écoulait d’une célébration des jeux olympiques à une autre. Elle est la base de la chronologie du monde grec à partir d’Alexandre le Grand.
  2. 2
    Jeux olympiques.
  3. 3
    Concours ou compétition intellectuelle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how olympiade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Lorsque j'ai fait paroître mes voyages, je comptois vingt-sept olympiades ; c'est-à-dire que le soleil avoit décrit, depuis ma naissance, cent-huit fois son cercle annuel.
  2. En 1912, il se rend à Stockholm pour la Vᵉ Olympiade, à Vienne, Paris, Londres... En 1920, Kano assiste à la VIIᵉ Olympiade à Anvers, puis se déplace à Paris, London... En 1928, il est présent lors de la IXᵉ Olympiade à Amsterdam, […].

This word in other languages

Olympiad(English)olimpiada(Español)Olympiade(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "olympiade"?
"olympiade" is spelled O-L-Y-M-P-I-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.lɛ̃.pjad\.
What does "olympiade" mean?
As a noun, "olympiade" means: Espace de quatre ans qui s’écoulait d’une célébration des jeux olympiques à une autre. Elle est la base de la chronologie du monde grec à partir d’Alexandre le Grand.
How do you pronounce "olympiade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "olympiade" is \ɔ.lɛ̃.pjad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "olympiade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "olympiade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

officiant#51,003orageuses#51,010numérotée#51,000niaiserie#50,994

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list