oliveira
/ɔ.li.ˈvɐj.ɾɐ/
The verdict
“oliveira” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #1,546 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.
- #1,546
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - árvore, Olea europaea, da família das Oleáceas, que dá as azeitonas (também chamadas de olivas) donde se extrai o azeite de oliva
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) |
Where “oliveira” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for oliveira is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ɔ.li.ˈvɐj.ɾɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,546 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “oliveira”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is O-L-I-V-E-I-R-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ɔ.li.ˈvɐj.ɾɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Oliver” - see the side-by-side comparison. oliveira vs Oliver
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.