Yarmouk
\jaʁ.muk\
The verdict
“Yarmouk” is uncommon French (frequency #54,340 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,340
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière du plateau du Golan, affluent du Jourdain en Syrie, Israël et Palestine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yarmouk · Yarmouk · French
Yarmouk · rank #54,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,340
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Yanis
Nearest frequency peer: Yanis (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Yarmouk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wizard
wizard
45,665 corpus weight
- Xerxès
Xerxès
45,663 corpus weight
- Yanis
Yanis
45,662 corpus weight
- Yarmouk
Yarmouk
45,661 corpus weight
- yougoslaves
yougoslaves
45,659 corpus weight
- yours
yours
45,657 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yarmouk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yarmouk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \jaʁ.muk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Yarmouk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Yarmouk is uncommon French at frequency #54,340 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \jaʁ.muk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Yarmouk in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Yarmouk, spelled Y-A-R-M-O-U-K.
Definition
- 1Rivière du plateau du Golan, affluent du Jourdain en Syrie, Israël et Palestine.
- 2Localité de la banlieue de Damas en Syrie, ancien camp de réfugiés palestiniens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Yarmouk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au fil des années, Yarmouk s’est peu à peu fondu dans le tissu urbain de la capitale syrienne, jusqu’à devenir un quartier à part entière de la ville, où résident également des Syriens et des Irakiens.
This word in other languages
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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