YHWH
The verdict
“YHWH” is uncommon French (frequency #70,320 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,320
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de Dieu (appelé tétragramme) dans la Bible hébraïque, souvent rendu en français, selon les traductions, par Yahvé, Yahweh ou Jéhovah.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yhwh · YHWH · French
YHWH · rank #70,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,320
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH zappa
Nearest frequency peer: zappa (+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 « YHWH »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Wozniak
Wozniak
29,684 corpus weight
- YHWH
YHWH
29,681 corpus weight
- zappa
zappa
29,680 corpus weight
- zeno
zeno
29,679 corpus weight
- zor
zor
29,678 corpus weight
- zozos
zozos
29,677 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « YHWH » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | YHWH |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « YHWH » en français
Rare enough to double-check
YHWH is uncommon French at frequency #70,320 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de Dieu (appelé tétragramme) dans la Bible hébraïque, souvent rendu en français, selon les traductions, par Yahvé, Yahweh ou Jéhovah.".
Zero misspellings are on record for YHWH in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is YHWH, spelled Y-H-W-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de Dieu (appelé tétragramme) dans la Bible hébraïque, souvent rendu en français, selon les traductions, par Yahvé, Yahweh ou Jéhovah.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how YHWH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les filles de Madian avaient si bien séduit les israélites que ceux-ci avaient délaissé YHWH au bénéfice de Baal, un dieu réputé apprécier les sacrifices humains et en particulier ceux des enfants.
Discours de YHWH décrivant les effets redoutables de la théophanie.
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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