years
\jɪəz\
The verdict
“years” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,065. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,065
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Pluriel de year.
Corpus desk
Index FR-years · years · French
years · rank #15,065 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,065
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH wang
Nearest frequency peer: wang (-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 “years”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- wa
wa
84,939 corpus weight
- Wallace
Wallace
84,938 corpus weight
- wang
wang
84,937 corpus weight
- years
years
84,936 corpus weight
- zola
zola
84,935 corpus weight
- zoé
zoé
84,934 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “years” 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 | years |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɪəz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,065 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “years” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around years (IPA \jɪəz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,065 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de year.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for years, with forms such as "eyars", "yaers", and "yearrs". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "yes", "yens", "yuans", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is years, spelled Y-E-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de year.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how years appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In recent years, while IceT has steered his career away from recorded music, he has continued to tout his streetcred.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eyars
- yaers
- yearrs
- yearss
- yeasr
- yeras
- yyears
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of years - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "years", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 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.