yeomen
/ˈjəʊmən/
"yeomen" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yeomen” is uncommon English (frequency #71,236 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,236
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of yeoman
Corpus desk
Index EN-yeomen · yeomen · English
yeomen · rank #71,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,236
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yarbrough
Nearest frequency peer: Yarbrough (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “yeomen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wortley
Wortley
28,772 corpus weight
- WSW
WSW
28,770 corpus weight
- Yarbrough
Yarbrough
28,767 corpus weight
- yeomen
yeomen
28,765 corpus weight
- zapping
zapping
28,760 corpus weight
- Zhukov
Zhukov
28,758 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yeomen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yeomen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈjəʊmən/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #71,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yeomen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yeomen is uncommon English at frequency #71,236 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈjəʊmən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of yeoman".
yeomen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is yeomen, spelled Y-E-O-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1plural of yeoman
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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