yiddish
\ji.diʃ\
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
- 5,604
- “Y” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yiddish |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ji.diʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,605 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yiddish” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around yiddish (IPA \ji.diʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,605 among 5,604 “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
- 1Groupe 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.
This word in other languages
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.
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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Using “yiddish”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is Y-I-D-D-I-S-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ji.diʃ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.