yah
/jʌː/
"yah" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yah” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,254) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,254
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Yes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yah · yah · English
yah · rank #14,254 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,254
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,763
- PHOTO-FINISH whereabouts
Nearest frequency peer: whereabouts (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yah”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- weaving
weaving
85,750 corpus weight
- welding
welding
85,749 corpus weight
- whereabouts
whereabouts
85,748 corpus weight
- yah
yah
85,747 corpus weight
- yummy
yummy
85,746 corpus weight
- Zeus
Zeus
85,745 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yah” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | yah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /jʌː/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yah” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yah is neighbouring look-alikes ("yo", "ye", …), not just typos; it is anadverb pronounced /jʌː/. Frequency #14,254 among 2,763 “Y” headwords. Gloss: "Yes.".
yah doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yo", "ye", "yu", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes. The correct English form is yah, spelled Y-A-H.
Definition
- 1Yes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yah, we did go along but it turned out the wedding was a load of nonsense.
Etymology
An alternative pronunciation, equivalent of yeah and yes.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yah", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.