Yangtsé
\jɑ̃t.se\
The verdict
“Yangtsé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Très long fleuve en Chine, qui coule du Tibet jusqu’à la mer de Chine orientale, au nord de Shanghai.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yangtsé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \jɑ̃t.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yangtsé” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Yangtsé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \jɑ̃t.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Très long fleuve en Chine, qui coule du Tibet jusqu’à la mer de Chine orientale, au nord de Shanghai.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Yangtsé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Yangtsé, spelled Y-A-N-G-T-S-É.
Definition
- 1Très long fleuve en Chine, qui coule du Tibet jusqu’à la mer de Chine orientale, au nord de Shanghai.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Yangtsé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-A-N-G-T-S-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \jɑ̃t.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.