Yangon
/jɑŋˈɡɑn/
"yangon" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yangon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #28,093. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,093
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The largest city and former capital of Myanmar; formerly, Rangoon (19th–21st c.), Dagon (16th–18th c.), and Dagoon (rare).
Corpus desk
Index EN-yangon · Yangon · English
Yangon · rank #28,093 · 9 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #28,093
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH ya'll
Nearest frequency peer: ya'll (-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 “Yangon”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wot
wot
71,911 corpus weight
- wraith
wraith
71,910 corpus weight
- ya'll
ya'll
71,909 corpus weight
- Yangon
Yangon
71,908 corpus weight
- yew
yew
71,906 corpus weight
- Yugoslav
Yugoslav
71,905 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Yangon” 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 | Yangon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /jɑŋˈɡɑn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yangon” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Yangon (IPA /jɑŋˈɡɑn/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,093 among 366 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The largest city and former capital of Myanmar; formerly, Rangoon (19th–21st c.), Dagon (16th–18th c.), and Dagoon (rare).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yangon, with forms such as "ayngon", "yagnon", and "yanggon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "yang", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun), pronounced /jàɴɡòʊɴ/ in standard Burmese. The correct English form is Yangon, spelled Y-A-N-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1The largest city and former capital of Myanmar; formerly, Rangoon (19th–21st c.), Dagon (16th–18th c.), and Dagoon (rare).
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese ရန်ကုန် (rankun), pronounced /jàɴɡòʊɴ/ in standard Burmese.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ayngon
- yagnon
- yanggon
- yangno
- yangonn
- yanngon
- yanogn
- ynagon
- yyangon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yangon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yangon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- This headword has one recorded confusable pair with "yang". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #28,093 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more English words in the "Y" letter cohort. Y–Z browse
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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.