yer
\jɛʁ\
The verdict
“yer” is uncommon French (frequency #71,189 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,189
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - variante orthographique de jer
Corpus desk
Index FR-yer · yer · French
yer · rank #71,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,189
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yesterday
Nearest frequency peer: yesterday (+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 « yer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- weeds
weeds
28,819 corpus weight
- Whitehorse
Whitehorse
28,815 corpus weight
- yer
yer
28,812 corpus weight
- yesterday
yesterday
28,811 corpus weight
- yn
yn
28,810 corpus weight
- zin
zin
28,805 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \jɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #71,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yer is uncommon French at frequency #71,189 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \jɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "variante orthographique de jer".
yer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is yer, spelled Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1variante orthographique de jer
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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