yacht
\jɔt\
The verdict
“yacht” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,038. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,038
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtiment de plaisance, à voiles ou à moteur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yacht · yacht · French
yacht · rank #16,038 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #16,038
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH vulnérabilité
Nearest frequency peer: vulnérabilité (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « yacht »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vieillard
vieillard
83,966 corpus weight
- VR
VR
83,965 corpus weight
- vulnérabili…
vulnérabilité
83,964 corpus weight
- yacht
yacht
83,963 corpus weight
- échiquier
échiquier
83,962 corpus weight
- écosystèmes
écosystèmes
83,961 corpus weight
What this shows « yacht » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | yacht |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɔt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,038 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « yacht »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around yacht (IPA \jɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,038 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bâtiment de plaisance, à voiles ou à moteur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for yacht, with forms such as "aycht", "yaccht", and "yachht". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "yachts", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is yacht, spelled Y-A-C-H-T.
Definition
- 1Bâtiment de plaisance, à voiles ou à moteur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yacht appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis son installation, assez récente, à Paris, où il habitait un magnifique hôtel, avenue de Friedland, il avait fait venir au Havre son beau yacht, le dernier raffinement du suprême confort, qui autrefois chauffait dans le port de New-York, toujours prêt à lever l'ancre.
Dès le lendemain, il s'informa auprès des pêcheurs de la côte et il apprit que, pendant deux jours, un yacht avait croisé sous l'archipel des Glenans, et que, la veille au soir, il avait pris le large.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aycht
- yaccht
- yachht
- yachtt
- yacth
- yahct
- ycaht
- yyacht
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yacht - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).