Yeats

name

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The verdict

“Yeats” is uncommon French (frequency #72,843 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,843
frequency rank, French
198
“Y” headwords

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-yeats · Yeats · French

Yeats · rank #72,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,843
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 198
  • PHOTO-FINISH Yamashita

Nearest frequency peer: Yamashita (-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 « Yeats »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yeats » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Yeats
PropertyValue
HeadwordYeats
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#72,843
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Yeats » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Yeatstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Yamashita » (#72,842), « zeb » (#72,844), « échappatoires » (#72,845). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « Yeats » est au #72,843. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Yeats is uncommon French at frequency #72,843 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

No misspelling variants are generated for Yeats in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Yeats, spelled Y-E-A-T-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. William Butler Yeats.

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 "Yeats"?
"Yeats" is spelled Y-E-A-T-S.
What does "Yeats" mean?
As a proper noun, "Yeats" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Yeats" come from?
"Yeats" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

étuve#72,861abbot#72,871abyss#72,876treat#72,808

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list