yeses
/jɛsɪz/
"yeses" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yeses” is uncommon English (frequency #98,909 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,909
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of yes
Corpus desk
Index EN-yeses · yeses · English
yeses · rank #98,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,909
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yakutsk
Nearest frequency peer: Yakutsk (-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 “yeses”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Yakutsk
Yakutsk
1,093 corpus weight
- yeses
yeses
1,092 corpus weight
- yonsei
yonsei
1,091 corpus weight
- zazen
zazen
1,089 corpus weight
- ZD
ZD
1,088 corpus weight
- zealotry
zealotry
1,087 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yeses” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yeses |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jɛsɪz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yeses” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yeses is uncommon English at frequency #98,909 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /jɛsɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of yes".
yeses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is yeses, spelled Y-E-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of yes
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yeses appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Emily was seated in a window; but there was room for two, and her unsuspected lover took his place. Mechanically she shut the book, assumed an attitude of attention, and prepared a few yeses.
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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