yard
\jaʁd\
The verdict
“yard” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,446. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,446
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Unité de mesure de la longueur (système impérial britannique), encore utilisée aux États-Unis, définie comme exactement 0,9144 mètre depuis 1959. Le symbole : yd (international) ou vg (au Canada fr...
Corpus desk
Index FR-yard · yard · French
yard · rank #24,446 · 6 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,446
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH wilde
Nearest frequency peer: wilde (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yard”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wave
wave
75,558 corpus weight
- website
website
75,557 corpus weight
- wilde
wilde
75,556 corpus weight
- yard
yard
75,555 corpus weight
- Yoann
Yoann
75,554 corpus weight
- ze
ze
75,553 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yard” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | yard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jaʁd\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #24,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yard” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around yard (IPA \jaʁd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,446 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Unité de mesure de la longueur (système impérial britannique), encore utilisée aux États-Unis, définie comme exactement 0,9144 mètre depuis 1959. Le symbole : yd (international) ou vg (au Canada fr...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for yard, with forms such as "ayrd", "yadr", and "yardd". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "yay", "York", "year", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is yard, spelled Y-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Unité de mesure de la longueur (système impérial britannique), encore utilisée aux États-Unis, définie comme exactement 0,9144 mètre depuis 1959. Le symbole : yd (international) ou vg (au Canada francophone). Anciennement appelé verge en France, notamment pour mesurer les tissus ; la verge est encore utilisée de nos jours au Canada, principalement dans le domaine du football nord-américain. 1 yard = 3 pieds = 36 pouces 1 mile = 1760 yards 1 yard = 91,44 centimètres
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how yard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le minuscule jardin attenant, clos par un mur de briques haut d’un mètre, voire d’un yard, fut bientôt un plaisant havre de pigeons et de moineaux attirés par les miettes.
Le boulet devait être animé d'une vitesse initiale de douze mille yards à la seconde.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ayrd
- yadr
- yardd
- yarrd
- yrad
- yyard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yard - 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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yard", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
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.