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
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Yankee.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yankees · Yankees · French
Yankees · rank #18,913 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #18,913
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH WTA
Nearest frequency peer: WTA (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yankees »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Wesley
Wesley
81,091 corpus weight
- which
which
81,090 corpus weight
- WTA
WTA
81,089 corpus weight
- Yankees
Yankees
81,088 corpus weight
- éclairs
éclairs
81,087 corpus weight
- égout
égout
81,086 corpus weight
What this shows « Yankees » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yankees »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Yankees, anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,913 among 198 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Yankees appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le whisky n’était pas du bourbon mais du scotch, du White Horse, du bon, pour Gérard du moins : les Yankees buvaient du rye, ils aiment le goût de brillantine.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yankees", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).