olivo
/ɔ.ˈli.vɔ/.
The verdict
“olivo” is uncommon Portuguese (frequency #80,650 among 385 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,650
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 385
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - azeitona, oliva
Corpus desk
Index PT-olivo · olivo · Portuguese
olivo · rank #80,650 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,650
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 385
- PHOTO-FINISH noviço
Nearest frequency peer: noviço (-9 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.
Ranks da cauda longa perto de “olivo”
Faixa escassa: as barras invertem o rank para o raro ler-se mais curto
- mourisco
mourisco
19,382 corpus weight
- narcótico
narcótico
19,376 corpus weight
- nickel
nickel
19,366 corpus weight
- noviço
noviço
19,360 corpus weight
- olivo
olivo
19,351 corpus weight
- panelada
panelada
19,342 corpus weight
What this shows Vista da cauda longa: onde “olivo” se situa face a ranks portugueses igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | olivo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ɔ.ˈli.vɔ/. |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,650 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cauda longa: rank de “olivo” em português
Rare enough to double-check
olivo is uncommon Portuguese at frequency #80,650 among 385 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ɔ.ˈli.vɔ/.. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "azeitona, oliva".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for olivo, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Portuguese rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Portuguese form is olivo, spelled O-L-I-V-O.
Definition
- 1azeitona, oliva
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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