yesss
"yesss" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yesss” is uncommon English (frequency #51,515 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,515
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Elongated form of yes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yesss |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yesss” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yesss is uncommon English at frequency #51,515 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Elongated form of yes.".
yesss doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is yesss, spelled Y-E-S-S-S.
Definition
- 1Elongated form of yes.
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 “yesss”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-E-S-S-S - 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.