Yevgeny
"yevgeny" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Yevgeny” is uncommon English (frequency #59,821 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,821
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij).
Corpus desk
Index EN-yevgeny · Yevgeny · English
Yevgeny · rank #59,821 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,821
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yasmine
Nearest frequency peer: Yasmine (-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 “Yevgeny”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Yasmine
Yasmine
40,181 corpus weight
- Yevgeny
Yevgeny
40,180 corpus weight
- yuppie
yuppie
40,179 corpus weight
- zam
zam
40,178 corpus weight
- Zavala
Zavala
40,177 corpus weight
- zealously
zealously
40,176 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Yevgeny” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yevgeny |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,821 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Yevgeny” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Yevgeny is uncommon English at frequency #59,821 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Yevgeny in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian Евге́ний (Jevgénij), from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios). Doublet of Eugene and Eugenius. The correct English form is Yevgeny, spelled Y-E-V-G-E-N-Y.
Definition
- 1A transliteration of the Russian male given name Евге́ний (Jevgénij).
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Евге́ний (Jevgénij), from Ancient Greek Εὐγένιος (Eugénios). Doublet of Eugene and Eugenius.
This word in other languages
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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