Yaoundé
\ja.un.de\
The verdict
“Yaoundé” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,319. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,319
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Cameroun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yaounde · Yaoundé · French
Yaoundé · rank #20,319 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,319
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Yale
Nearest frequency peer: Yale (-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 « Yaoundé »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- voyelle
voyelle
79,685 corpus weight
- Wolfgang
Wolfgang
79,684 corpus weight
- Yale
Yale
79,683 corpus weight
- Yaoundé
Yaoundé
79,682 corpus weight
- zodiaque
zodiaque
79,681 corpus weight
- ébauche
ébauche
79,680 corpus weight
What this shows « Yaoundé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yaoundé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ja.un.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,319 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yaoundé »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Yaoundé (IPA \ja.un.de\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #20,319 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Capitale du Cameroun.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yaoundé, with forms such as "ayoundé", "yaonudé", and "yaoudné". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Yaoundé, spelled Y-A-O-U-N-D-É.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Cameroun.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ayoundé
- yaonudé
- yaoudné
- yaounddé
- yaounde
- yaounndé
- yaounéd
- yauondé
- yoaundé
- yyaoundé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yaoundé - 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
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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).