yazoo
"yazoo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yazoo” is uncommon English (frequency #59,133 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,133
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).
Corpus desk
Index EN-yazoo · yazoo · English
yazoo · rank #59,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,133
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH yippee
Nearest frequency peer: yippee (+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.
Long-tail ranks near “yazoo”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- wryly
wryly
40,872 corpus weight
- yazoo
yazoo
40,868 corpus weight
- yippee
yippee
40,867 corpus weight
- your's
your's
40,866 corpus weight
- yume
yume
40,864 corpus weight
- Zacharias
Zacharias
40,863 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yazoo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yazoo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yazoo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yazoo is uncommon English at frequency #59,133 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yazoo, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi with this characteristic. The correct English form is yazoo, spelled Y-A-Z-O-O.
Definition
- 1A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).
Etymology
Named after the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi with this characteristic.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).