yiddish

\ji.diʃ\

/\ji.diʃ\/ noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“yiddish” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,605. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,605
frequency rank, French
198
“Y” headwords
9
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe de langues germaniques proche de l’allemand, avec un apport de vocabulaire hébreu et slave, qui ont servi de langues vernaculaires aux communautés juives d’Europe centrale et orientale du Mo...

Corpus desk

Index FR-yiddish · yiddish · French

yiddish · rank #41,605 · 9 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,605
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 198
  • PHOTO-FINISH Yassine

Nearest frequency peer: Yassine (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « yiddish »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « yiddish » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for yiddish
PropertyValue
Headwordyiddish
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ji.diʃ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#41,605
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « yiddish »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).yiddishse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Yassine » (#41,604), « wok » (#41,603), « Zeit » (#41,607). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « yiddish » est au #41,605. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around yiddish (IPA \ji.diʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,605 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Groupe de langues germaniques proche de l’allemand, avec un apport de vocabulaire hébreu et slave, qui ont servi de langues vernaculaires aux communautés juives d’Europe centrale et orientale du Mo...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for yiddish, with forms such as "iyddish", "ydidish", and "yiddihs". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is yiddish, spelled Y-I-D-D-I-S-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Groupe de langues germaniques proche de l’allemand, avec un apport de vocabulaire hébreu et slave, qui ont servi de langues vernaculaires aux communautés juives d’Europe centrale et orientale du Moyen Âge jusqu’au XXᵉ siècle.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how yiddish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Lorsque Anna et lui voulaient se cacher de nous, ils se parlaient en une langue incompréhensible, rauque et gutturale avec des douceurs, langue du secret, de la honte peut-être. C’était le yiddish.
  2. Et de fait, à condition d’éviter les hébraïsmes, et d’en aligner la syntaxe sur le modèle allemand, le yiddish peut s’apparenter à l’un des multiples dialectes qui parcourent ce pays ultradécentralisé.

This word in other languages

Yiddish(English)yidis(Español)Jiddisch(Deutsch)iídiche(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • iyddish
  • ydidish
  • yiddihs
  • yiddishh
  • yiddissh
  • yiddsih
  • yididsh
  • yidish
  • yyiddish

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yiddish - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

iyddish2ydidish2yiddihs2yiddishh1yiddissh1yiddsih2yididsh2yidish1
Edit distance from "yiddish"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yiddish"?
"yiddish" is spelled Y-I-D-D-I-S-H. The IPA pronunciation is \ji.diʃ\.
What does "yiddish" mean?
As a noun, "yiddish" means: Groupe de langues germaniques proche de l’allemand, avec un apport de vocabulaire hébreu et slave, qui ont servi de langues vernaculaires aux communautés juives d’Europe centrale et orientale du Mo...
What are common misspellings of "yiddish"?
Common misspellings include "iyddish", "ydidish", "yiddihs", "yiddishh", "yiddissh". The correct spelling is "yiddish".
How do you pronounce "yiddish"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "yiddish" is \ji.diʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "yiddish" come from?
"yiddish" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yiddish", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Yassine#41,604Wembley#41,601vivions#41,597étonnez#41,614

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Wagram9 variantsabaissée9 variantsVerlag9 variantsvariait9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list