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 September 3, 2026) - Très long fleuve en Chine, qui coule du Tibet jusqu’à la mer de Chine orientale, au nord de Shanghai.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yangtse · Yangtsé · French
Yangtsé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Yangtsé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce tunnel, en construction depuis deux ans, est le premier à traverser le fleuve Yangtsé, l’une des plus importantes voies d’eau en Chine.
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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.