Yémen
\je.mɛn\
The verdict
“Yémen” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,975. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,975
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays situé au sud-ouest de la péninsule arabique, bordé par le royaume d’Arabie saoudite au nord, Oman à l’est, le golfe d’Aden au sud et la mer Rouge à l’ouest, et dont la capitale est Sanaa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yemen · Yémen · French
Yémen · rank #10,975 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #10,975
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH wild
Nearest frequency peer: wild (-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 « Yémen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Wallonie
Wallonie
89,029 corpus weight
- when
when
89,028 corpus weight
- wild
wild
89,027 corpus weight
- Yémen
Yémen
89,026 corpus weight
- écrivant
écrivant
89,025 corpus weight
- écurie
écurie
89,024 corpus weight
What this shows « Yémen » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Yémen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \je.mɛn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,975 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yémen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Yémen (IPA \je.mɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #10,975 among 198 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yémen, with forms such as "yemen", "yméen", and "yyémen". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "yen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 Yémen, spelled Y-É-M-E-N.
Definition
- 1Pays situé au sud-ouest de la péninsule arabique, bordé par le royaume d’Arabie saoudite au nord, Oman à l’est, le golfe d’Aden au sud et la mer Rouge à l’ouest, et dont la capitale est Sanaa.
- 2Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yémen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À voir cette fille étrange, un poète lui aurait donné le Yémen pour patrie, elle tenait de l’Afrite et du Génie des contes arabes.
Inclure les Yémens, et il faudrait que ce soit les deux, unifiés préalablement ou pas, dans ce qui deviendrait alors le Conseil de coopération de la Péninsule arabe est une idée intéressante.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- yemen
- yméen
- yyémen
- yéemn
- yémenn
- yémmen
- yémne
- éymen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yémen - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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 (8 here; floor ≥5).