Yahvé
\ja.ve\
The verdict
“Yahvé” is uncommon French (frequency #62,724 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,724
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de Dieu, Dieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yahve · Yahvé · French
Yahvé · rank #62,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,724
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Xiaoping
Nearest frequency peer: Xiaoping (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Yahvé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wonderland
wonderland
37,280 corpus weight
- Xiaoping
Xiaoping
37,278 corpus weight
- Yahvé
Yahvé
37,277 corpus weight
- Yamina
Yamina
37,276 corpus weight
- yield
yield
37,274 corpus weight
- zoro
zoro
37,273 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yahvé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yahvé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ja.ve\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Yahvé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Yahvé is uncommon French at frequency #62,724 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ja.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de Dieu, Dieu.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Yahvé in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Yahvé, spelled Y-A-H-V-É.
Definition
- 1Nom de Dieu, Dieu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Yahvé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici les commandements, les préceptes et les règles que Yahvé a ordonné de vous apprendre : vous les mettrez en pratique dans le pays où vous allez entrer et qui sera vôtre.
This word in other languages
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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