Olympie

/\ɔ.lɛ̃.pi\/ name

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#58,803

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

Olympie is aFrenchname. It means: Centre religieux de la Grèce antique, dans le Péloponnèse, situé dans la plaine de l’Élide, sur la rive droite de l’Alphée et au pied du Mont Cronion et où se déroulaient, tous les quatre ans, les ... Pronounced \ɔ.lɛ̃.pi\.

Key facts for Olympie
PropertyValue
HeadwordOlympie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\ɔ.lɛ̃.pi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#58,803
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Olympie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Olympie is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɔ.lɛ̃.pi\. Corpus data places it at rank #58,803 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Olympie in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Olympie, spelled O-L-Y-M-P-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Centre religieux de la Grèce antique, dans le Péloponnèse, situé dans la plaine de l’Élide, sur la rive droite de l’Alphée et au pied du Mont Cronion et où se déroulaient, tous les quatre ans, les Jeux olympiques.
  2. 2
    Petite ville grecque de 1,500 habitants, située à proximité immédiate du sanctuaire d’Olympie.
  3. 3
    Lieu où se déroulent des jeux renommés.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #58,803 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Olympie"?
"Olympie" is spelled O-L-Y-M-P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɔ.lɛ̃.pi\.
What does "Olympie" mean?
As a name, "Olympie" means: Centre religieux de la Grèce antique, dans le Péloponnèse, situé dans la plaine de l’Élide, sur la rive droite de l’Alphée et au pied du Mont Cronion et où se déroulaient, tous les quatre ans, les ...
How do you pronounce "Olympie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Olympie" is \ɔ.lɛ̃.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.