yam
/jɑm/
The verdict
“yam” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #67,389 among 1,840 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,389
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,840
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Dioscorea spp.) Ñame.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yam |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /jɑm/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yam” sits in Spanish frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yam is uncommon Spanish at frequency #67,389 among 1,840 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /jɑm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "(Dioscorea spp.) Ñame.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for yam, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is yam, spelled Y-A-M.
Definition
- 1(Dioscorea spp.) Ñame.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “yam”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is Y-A-M - 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.