yah
\ja\
The verdict
“yah” is uncommon French (frequency #74,482 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,482
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Onzième lettre de l’alphabet tifinagh, ⵀ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yah · yah · French
yah · rank #74,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,482
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yaka
Nearest frequency peer: yaka (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yah”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- whether
whether
25,523 corpus weight
- willa
willa
25,521 corpus weight
- yah
yah
25,519 corpus weight
- yaka
yaka
25,518 corpus weight
- yara
yara
25,516 corpus weight
- Yrieix
Yrieix
25,514 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yah” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “yah” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
yah is uncommon French at frequency #74,482 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for yah, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is yah, spelled Y-A-H.
Definition
- 1Onzième lettre de l’alphabet tifinagh, ⵀ.
- 2Lettre additionnelle de l’alphabet tifinagh, ⵁ.
- 3Lettre additionnelle de l’alphabet tifinagh, ⵂ.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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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.