Yakov
The verdict
“Yakov” is uncommon French (frequency #83,517 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,517
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme russe de Jacques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yakov · Yakov · French
Yakov · rank #83,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,517
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH wool
Nearest frequency peer: wool (-2 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 « Yakov »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- woodland
woodland
16,487 corpus weight
- wool
wool
16,486 corpus weight
- Yakov
Yakov
16,484 corpus weight
- yole
yole
16,482 corpus weight
- zal
zal
16,481 corpus weight
- Zinn
Zinn
16,480 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yakov » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yakov |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Yakov » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Yakov is uncommon French at frequency #83,517 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme russe de Jacques.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Yakov, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Yakov, spelled Y-A-K-O-V.
Definition
- 1Synonyme russe de Jacques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yakov appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yakov Rabkin.
Yakov Boukhvostov.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).