Yeats
/jeɪts/
"yeats" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yeats” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #32,255. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,255
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yeats · Yeats · English
Yeats · rank #32,255 · 5 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,255
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yonkers
Nearest frequency peer: Yonkers (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Yeats”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- woefully
woefully
67,750 corpus weight
- workmen
workmen
67,749 corpus weight
- wrangler
wrangler
67,748 corpus weight
- Yeats
Yeats
67,746 corpus weight
- Yonkers
Yonkers
67,745 corpus weight
- Yunnan
Yunnan
67,744 corpus weight
What this shows “Yeats” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | Yeats |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /jeɪts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Yeats”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Yeats (IPA /jeɪts/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #32,255 among 366 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yeats, with forms such as "eyats", "yeatss", and "yeatts". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "yet", "yes", "yeti", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Alternative spelling of Yates. The correct English form is Yeats, spelled Y-E-A-T-S.
Definition
- 1A surname.
- 2The author and poet W. B. Yeats
Etymology
Alternative spelling of Yates.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eyats
- yeatss
- yeatts
- yetas
- yyeats
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yeats - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "Yeats", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).