yak
\jak\
The verdict
“yak” is uncommon French (frequency #56,364 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,364
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de yack.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yak · yak · French
yak · rank #56,364 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,364
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Witherspoon
Nearest frequency peer: Witherspoon (-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 « yak »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- vulgarisate…
vulgarisateur
43,641 corpus weight
- vélin
vélin
43,640 corpus weight
- Witherspoon
Witherspoon
43,638 corpus weight
- yak
yak
43,637 corpus weight
- Yalta
Yalta
43,636 corpus weight
- zenit
zenit
43,633 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yak » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jak\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #56,364 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yak » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yak is uncommon French at frequency #56,364 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \jak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de yack.".
No misspelling variants are generated for yak in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is yak, spelled Y-A-K.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de yack.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les nomades gardaient des troupeaux de yaks et de moutons appartenant en grande partie aux classes privilégiées.
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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