yandere
/ˈjɑːndɛɹeɪ/
"yandere" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yandere” is uncommon English (frequency #81,048 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,048
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means to maintain an exclusive bond.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yandere · yandere · English
yandere · rank #81,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,048
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,763
- PHOTO-FINISH yello
Nearest frequency peer: yello (+2 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 “yandere”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wrongness
wrongness
18,960 corpus weight
- yandere
yandere
18,953 corpus weight
- yello
yello
18,951 corpus weight
- yelping
yelping
18,950 corpus weight
- Yolande
Yolande
18,949 corpus weight
- yttrium
yttrium
18,946 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yandere” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yandere |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈjɑːndɛɹeɪ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yandere” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yandere is uncommon English at frequency #81,048 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈjɑːndɛɹeɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means to maintain an exclusive bond.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for yandere, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Japanese ヤンデレ (yandere), a portmanteau of 病んでる (yanderu), contraction of 病んでいる (yande iru), progressive tense of 病む (yamu, “to be sick”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb). Developed on the mode… The correct English form is yandere, spelled Y-A-N-D-E-R-E.
Definition
- 1A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means to maintain an exclusive bond.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yandere appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And it finally answered the question as to whether Senjougahara is tsundere or yandere.
Looking at anime charts, there's always the harem series with the dense hero and a bunch of girls whose personalities are pulled out of a set cast of tropes (the Childhood Friend, Tsundere, Yandere, and Lolita, for instance).
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese ヤンデレ (yandere), a portmanteau of 病んでる (yanderu), contraction of 病んでいる (yande iru), progressive tense of 病む (yamu, “to be sick”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb). Developed on the model of tsundere (“being cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time”).
This word in other languages
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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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.