Yankees
The verdict
“Yankees” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,913
- frequency rank, French
- 5,604
- “Y” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de Yankee.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yankees |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #18,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Yankees” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Yankees, anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,913 among 5,604 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de Yankee.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yankees, with forms such as "aynkees", "yaknees", and "yanekes". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Yankee", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Yankees, spelled Y-A-N-K-E-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Yankee.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aynkees
- yaknees
- yanekes
- yankeess
- yankes
- yankese
- yankkees
- yannkees
- ynakees
- yyankees
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yankees - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “Yankees”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-A-N-K-E-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “Yankee” - see the side-by-side comparison. Yankees vs Yankee
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Same frequency band
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.