Yamaska
The verdict
“Yamaska” is uncommon French (frequency #53,700 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,700
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Pierre-De Saurel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yamaska · Yamaska · French
Yamaska · rank #53,700 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,700
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH xa
Nearest frequency peer: xa (-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 « Yamaska »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wasp
wasp
46,304 corpus weight
- webzine
webzine
46,303 corpus weight
- xa
xa
46,302 corpus weight
- Yamaska
Yamaska
46,301 corpus weight
- yuko
yuko
46,299 corpus weight
- zik
zik
46,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yamaska » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yamaska |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,700 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Yamaska » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Yamaska is uncommon French at frequency #53,700 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Yamaska doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Yamaska, spelled Y-A-M-A-S-K-A.
Definition
- 1Municipalité canadienne du Québec située dans la MRC de Pierre-De Saurel.
- 2Rivière canadienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yamaska appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus tard, j'ai appris le mot chef d'oeuvrage (prononcé chedevrage, évidemment) utilisé dans la région de Yamaska, bien loin de ma Pauce ancestrale.
Une apprentie-conductrice a perdu la vie après avoir sombré dans la rivière Yamaska, lundi en fin d’avant-midi, à Saint-Hyacinthe, en Montérégie.
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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