Yamina

\ja.mi.na\

/\ja.mi.na\/ name

The verdict

“Yamina” is uncommon French (frequency #62,725 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#62,725
frequency rank, French
198
“Y” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-yamina · Yamina · French

Yamina · rank #62,725 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #62,725
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 198
  • PHOTO-FINISH Yahvé

Nearest frequency peer: Yahvé (-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 « Yamina »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yamina » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Yamina
PropertyValue
HeadwordYamina
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\ja.mi.na\
Letters6
Frequency rank#62,725
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Yamina » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Yaminatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Yahvé » (#62,724), « Xiaoping » (#62,723), « yield » (#62,727). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « Yamina » est au #62,725. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Yamina is uncommon French at frequency #62,725 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ja.mi.na\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Zero misspellings are on record for Yamina in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented 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 Yamina, spelled Y-A-M-I-N-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Yamina"?
"Yamina" is spelled Y-A-M-I-N-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ja.mi.na\.
What does "Yamina" mean?
As a proper noun, "Yamina" means: Prénom féminin.
How do you pronounce "Yamina"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Yamina" is \ja.mi.na\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Yamina" come from?
"Yamina" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yamina", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list