yazoo
"yazoo" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yazoo” is uncommon English (frequency #59,133 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,133
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).
| 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) |
Where “yazoo” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yazoo is uncommon English at frequency #59,133 among 2,763 “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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Using “yazoo”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-A-Z-O-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.