yankees
[ʝãŋˈkees]
The verdict
“yankees” has 10 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #17,848. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,848
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,840
- “Y” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forma del plural de yankee.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yankees |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ʝãŋˈkees] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yankees” sits in Spanish frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around yankees (IPA [ʝãŋˈkees]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,848 among 1,840 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Forma del plural de yankee.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for yankees, with forms such as "aynkees", "yaknees", and "yanekes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Yankee", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is yankees, spelled Y-A-N-K-E-E-S.
Definition
- 1Forma del plural de yankee.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aynkees
- yaknees
- yanekes
- yankeess
- yankes
- yankese
- yankkees
- yannkees
- ynakees
- yyankees
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yankees - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 “yankees”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is Y-A-N-K-E-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ʝãŋˈkees] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Yankee” - see the side-by-side comparison. yankees vs Yankee
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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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.