yield up the ghost
"yield-up-the-ghost" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yield up the ghost” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - For a person, to die.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yield-up-the-ghost · yield up the ghost · English
yield up the ghost · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yield up the ghost |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yield up the ghost” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yield up the ghost is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "For a person, to die.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for yield up the ghost, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is yield up the ghost, spelled Y-I-E-L-D- -U-P- -T-H-E- -G-H-O-S-T.
Definition
- 1For a person, to die.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yield up the ghost appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband.
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