yen
French, noun/jɛn/
yen is spelled Y-E-N (3 letters) and appears 5.9 times per million words in written French, the 9,981st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Yen is a French masculine noun meaning “yen (currency)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Monnaie du Japon. Un yen vaut 100 sens. Son symbole est ¥ (Unicode U+00A5). Le code ISO : JPY”.
What does yen mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineyen (currency)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Monnaie du Japon. Un yen vaut 100 sens. Son symbole est ¥ (Unicode U+00A5). Le code ISO : JPY.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of yen
- yens plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce yen?
- /jɛn/
- \jɛn\
- [ɛ̃ jɛn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to yen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is yen in French?
yen appears 5.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).