yesterday
\ˈjɛs.tɚ.deɪ\
The verdict
“yesterday” is uncommon French (frequency #71,190 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,190
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yesterday · yesterday · French
yesterday · rank #71,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,190
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH yer
Nearest frequency peer: yer (-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 « yesterday »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- zombi
zombi
28,804 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yesterday » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yesterday |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \ˈjɛs.tɚ.deɪ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,190 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yesterday » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yesterday is uncommon French at frequency #71,190 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \ˈjɛs.tɚ.deɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Hier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for yesterday in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is yesterday, spelled Y-E-S-T-E-R-D-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Hier.
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).