yi
\ji\
The verdict
“yi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,716) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,716
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Langue parlée au Sichuan en Chine par les Yis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yi · yi · French
yi · rank #19,716 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,716
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH XP
Nearest frequency peer: XP (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “yi”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Vuitton
Vuitton
80,288 corpus weight
- wonder
wonder
80,287 corpus weight
- XP
XP
80,286 corpus weight
- yi
yi
80,285 corpus weight
- yuan
yuan
80,284 corpus weight
- zara
zara
80,282 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “yi” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | yi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ji\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #19,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “yi” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for yi is neighbouring look-alikes ("yo", "yu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ji\. Frequency #19,716 among 198 “Y” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
yi has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "yo", "yu", "yt", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 yi, spelled Y-I.
Definition
- 1Langue parlée au Sichuan en Chine par les Yis.
- 2Système d’écriture (alphasyllabaire et clés) traditionnel utilisé pour écrire cette langue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les années 1970, les autorités en ont tiré un syllabaire comptant 1 165 signes, aujourd'hui appliqué au yi du Sichuan, devenu langue standard.
This word in other languages
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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- "yi" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "yo". View pair
- Usage frequency rank #19,716 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.