yaks
/jæks/
"yaks" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yaks” is uncommon English (frequency #75,572 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,572
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of yak
Corpus desk
Index EN-yaks · yaks · English
yaks · rank #75,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,572
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yola
Nearest frequency peer: yola (+3 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.
Long-tail ranks near “yaks”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- writting
writting
24,436 corpus weight
- wushu
wushu
24,434 corpus weight
- Wyckoff
Wyckoff
24,433 corpus weight
- yaks
yaks
24,429 corpus weight
- yola
yola
24,426 corpus weight
- Yorick
Yorick
24,425 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yaks” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yaks |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jæks/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yaks” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yaks is uncommon English at frequency #75,572 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /jæks/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of yak".
yaks has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is yaks, spelled Y-A-K-S.
Definition
- 1plural of yak
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.
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