Yalta
\jal.ta\
The verdict
“Yalta” is uncommon French (frequency #56,365 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,365
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville balnéaire de Crimée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yalta · Yalta · French
Yalta · rank #56,365 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,365
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yak
Nearest frequency peer: yak (-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 « Yalta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- éblouie
éblouie
43,632 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yalta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yalta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \jal.ta\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,365 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Yalta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Yalta is uncommon French at frequency #56,365 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \jal.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Yalta, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Yalta, spelled Y-A-L-T-A.
Definition
- 1Ville balnéaire de Crimée.
- 2Conférence de Yalta.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yalta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant près de deux siècles, la péninsule avait été la tête de pont de la Russie dans les mers chaudes : l’aristocratie de Moscou et de Saint-Pétersbourg séjournait dans les luxueuses résidences d’été de Yalta tandis que la marine établissait le quartier général de sa flotte dans la mer Noire à Sébastopol.
Le château de Woronzoff qui appartient au prince de ce nom, est sans contredit une des merveilles de la Crimée, et les somptueuses demeures qui s’élèvent sur la route que l’on parcourt en s’y rendant de Yalta ne servent qu’à rehausser sa splendeur et sa magnificence.
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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