oliveira
/ɔ.li.ˈvɐj.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“oliveira” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #1,546. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,546
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - árvore, Olea europaea, da família das Oleáceas, que dá as azeitonas (também chamadas de olivas) donde se extrai o azeite de oliva
Corpus desk
Index PT-oliveira · oliveira · Portuguese
oliveira · rank #1,546 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #1,546
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH perda
Nearest frequency peer: perda (+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.
Pares de rank junto ao íman ortográfico “oliveira”
Mesma faixa de raridade: útil se um typo cair num lema vizinho
- jornalista
jornalista
98,462 corpus weight
- Londres
Londres
98,460 corpus weight
- mídia
mídia
98,458 corpus weight
- oliveira
oliveira
98,455 corpus weight
- perda
perda
98,453 corpus weight
- rosa
rosa
98,450 corpus weight
What this shows “oliveira” está entre estes pares FrequencyWords; a profundidade de typo mede-se à parte no gráfico de distância de edição.
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 | oliveira |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.li.ˈvɐj.ɾɐ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,546 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequência do íman ortográfico “oliveira”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around oliveira (IPA /ɔ.li.ˈvɐj.ɾɐ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,546 among 385 “O” headwords. Dominant gloss: "árvore, Olea europaea, da família das Oleáceas, que dá as azeitonas (também chamadas de olivas) donde se extrai o azeite de oliva".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for oliveira, with forms such as "loiveira", "oilveira", and "olievira". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Oliver", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is oliveira, spelled O-L-I-V-E-I-R-A.
Definition
- 1árvore, Olea europaea, da família das Oleáceas, que dá as azeitonas (também chamadas de olivas) donde se extrai o azeite de oliva
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- loiveira
- oilveira
- olievira
- oliveiar
- oliveirra
- oliveria
- oliviera
- olivveira
- olliveira
- olvieira
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of oliveira - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "oliveira", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).