Yellowknife
\jɛ.lo.najf\
The verdict
“Yellowknife” is uncommon French (frequency #88,240 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,240
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale des Territoires du Nord-Ouest, au Canada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yellowknife · Yellowknife · French
Yellowknife · rank #88,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,240
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Yasin
Nearest frequency peer: Yasin (-2 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 « Yellowknife »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Xoxo
Xoxo
11,764 corpus weight
- Yasin
Yasin
11,763 corpus weight
- Yellowknife
Yellowknife
11,761 corpus weight
- Zalman
Zalman
11,759 corpus weight
- zapatero
zapatero
11,758 corpus weight
- Zar
Zar
11,757 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Yellowknife » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yellowknife |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \jɛ.lo.najf\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #88,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Yellowknife » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Yellowknife is uncommon French at frequency #88,240 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \jɛ.lo.najf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Yellowknife in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Yellowknife, spelled Y-E-L-L-O-W-K-N-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1Capitale des Territoires du Nord-Ouest, au Canada.
- 2Gouvernement des Territoires du Nord-Ouest, basé dans cette ville.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Yellowknife appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les quelque 20 000 habitants de Yellowknife, une des principales localités du Grand Nord canadien, étaient engagés hier dans une course contre la montre pour évacuer leurs maisons menacées par un important feu de forêt.
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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