# Yvette

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /iːˈvɛt/ · frequency rank #28,436

## Definitions
1. A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).

## Common misspellings (7)
`vyette`, `yevtte`, `yvete`, `yvetet`, `yvtete`, `yvvette`, `yyvette`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/yvette