Yates

name

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The verdict

“Yates” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,336
frequency rank, French
198
“Y” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-yates · Yates · French

Yates · rank #35,336 · 7 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,336
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 198
  • PHOTO-FINISH yakuza

Nearest frequency peer: yakuza (-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 « Yates »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Yates » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Yates vs yes
40% similar
Yates vs Yves
60% similar
Yates vs Ypres
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Yates
PropertyValue
HeadwordYates
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#35,336
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yates »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Yatesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « yakuza » (#35,335), « wouah » (#35,334), « zeppelin » (#35,338). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « Yates » est au #35,336. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around Yates, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,336 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yates, with forms such as "aytes", "yaets", and "yatess". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "yes", "Yves", "Ypres", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Yates, spelled Y-A-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Yates appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Un gars comme Simon Yates, par exemple, est un candidat.
  2. Le leader de la Jumbo devance toujours Vlasov et Adam Yates de 34 et 40 secondes au général.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aytes
  • yaets
  • yatess
  • yatse
  • yattes
  • ytaes
  • yyates

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yates - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

aytes2yaets2yatess1yatse2yattes1ytaes2yyates1
Edit distance from "Yates"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Yates"?
"Yates" is spelled Y-A-T-E-S.
What does "Yates" mean?
As a proper noun, "Yates" means: Nom de famille.
What words are commonly confused with "Yates"?
"Yates" is commonly confused with "yes", "Yves", "Ypres". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "Yates" come from?
"Yates" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Yates", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

wouah#35,334écope#35,341vêtir#35,330érige#35,347

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

accrus7 variantsallocs7 variantsstoke7 variantsboogie7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list