Olicity
Olicity is the ship name for Oliver and Felicity from Arrow. It is a portmanteau: built by joining a piece of one name to a piece of the other.
Engine version 1.0 · Breakdown computed from the live checker · Research Desk
Structure
oli from Oliver, plus licity from Felicity.
Oliver coverage 50%
Felicity coverage 75%
At the join, ic, a vowel meets a consonant, which is the seam that most often survives being read aloud by someone seeing it for the first time.
Why this name is shaped the way it is
Oli plus city. The blend happens to end in an ordinary English word, which is a thing the engine cannot notice and a reader always does.
What our own engine would have built
Handed Oliver and Felicity with no knowledge of the fandom, the blender proposes Feliciver, Olivicity, Felicver, Olivcity, Olivlicity, Feliciliver. Olicity is not among them. That is the normal result, and it is the clearest illustration of why this site refuses to call any candidate the best one. A community picked Olicity for reasons no software can see.
Reading it out loud
The join sits at ic, and that is the part worth saying aloud before committing to a name. Olicity carries it without trouble, which is a large part of why it stuck: a ship name has to survive being said in a sentence, not only being typed into a tag. It matters more than it sounds. A blend that reads cleanly on a page and stumbles in speech tends to lose to a plainer alternative, however elegant it looked when it was written down.
If you are naming a pairing of your own
The useful lesson from Olicity is not the name itself but what it kept. A blend that works holds enough of both halves that a reader who knows Oliver and Felicity recognises them without being told, and stops there. Taking more from one side than the other is what produces a name that reads as one person rather than two.
If you want to run the same check on a name of your own, the draft checker does exactly what produced the breakdown above, and the ship name generator builds candidates from two names you supply. The method behind the scoring explains what the coverage figures mean and, more importantly, what they cannot tell you.
Other portmanteaus
Questions
What is the ship name for Oliver and Felicity?
Olicity. It is the name the Arrow fandom uses for Oliver and Felicity as a pairing, and it is what you will see on tags, fan work and video titles about the two of them together.
What does Olicity mean?
Olicity is the ship name for Oliver and Felicity from Arrow. A ship name is a nickname for a pairing, and shipping means wanting two characters to be together.
Who is Olicity?
Olicity is not a person. It refers to Oliver and Felicity as a pairing, which is how fandom communities talk about two characters together in one word.
How was Olicity formed?
By joining oli from Oliver to licity from Felicity. That keeps 50% of the first name and 75% of the second.
Is Olicity the only ship name for Oliver and Felicity?
No. Two names can be joined in several ways, and from Oliver and Felicity alone a blender produces Feliciver, Olivicity, Felicver among others. Olicity is the one the community settled on, and that is a matter of use rather than of structure: a name becomes the name when enough people tag with it.
Where would I see Olicity written?
Mostly as a tag. Ship names exist because writing out Oliver and Felicity every time is tedious in a tag, a title or a search box, and one word does the same job. You will find it on fan work archives, in video titles, and in the search terms people use when they are looking for work about this pairing specifically rather than about Arrow generally.
Does using Olicity mean it is canon?
No, and the two are unrelated. A ship name records that people are interested in Oliver and Felicity as a pairing. Whether Arrow ever puts them together is a separate question, and some of the most used ship names belong to pairings that never happen in the story at all.