Yellowstone

[jelostɔn]

/[jelostɔn]/ name

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The verdict

“Yellowstone” is uncommon German (frequency #78,780 among 67 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#78,780
frequency rank, German
67
“Y” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fluss in den USA; Yellowstone River

Corpus desk

Index DE-yellowstone · Yellowstone · German

Yellowstone · rank #78,780 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #78,780
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 67
  • PHOTO-FINISH Wäschekorb

Nearest frequency peer: Wäschekorb (-1 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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Yellowstone“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Yellowstone“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Yellowstone
PropertyValue
HeadwordYellowstone
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[jelostɔn]
Letters11
Frequency rank#78,780
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Yellowstone“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Yellowstonefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Wäschekorb“ (#78,779), „zacher“ (#78,781), „Wärmeenergie“ (#78,778). Unter 67 „Y“-Lemmata liegt „Yellowstone“ bei #78,780. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Yellowstone is uncommon German at frequency #78,780 among 67 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [jelostɔn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fluss in den USA; Yellowstone River".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Yellowstone, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Yellowstone, spelled Y-E-L-L-O-W-S-T-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fluss in den USA; Yellowstone River

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Yellowstone"?
"Yellowstone" is spelled Y-E-L-L-O-W-S-T-O-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is [jelostɔn].
What does "Yellowstone" mean?
As a proper noun, "Yellowstone" means: Fluss in den USA; Yellowstone River
How do you pronounce "Yellowstone"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Yellowstone" is [jelostɔn]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Yellowstone" come from?
"Yellowstone" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yellowstone", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Zeiteinheit#78,785Wohnstätten#78,771Zollbeamten#78,792zurückzogen#78,800

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list