Yokohama
\jo.ko.a.ma\
The verdict
“Yokohama” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,735. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,735
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville portuaire du Japon située à environ 30 km au sud de Tokyo. C’est la deuxième ville du Japon en population avec plus de 3,6 millions d’habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yokohama · Yokohama · French
Yokohama · rank #43,735 · 11 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,735
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Yannis
Nearest frequency peer: Yannis (-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 « Yokohama »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- whiskey
whiskey
56,270 corpus weight
- window
window
56,269 corpus weight
- Yannis
Yannis
56,267 corpus weight
- Yokohama
Yokohama
56,266 corpus weight
- Yunnan
Yunnan
56,265 corpus weight
- Zazie
Zazie
56,263 corpus weight
What this shows « Yokohama » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yokohama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \jo.ko.a.ma\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #43,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yokohama »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Yokohama (IPA \jo.ko.a.ma\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,735 among 198 “Y” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville portuaire du Japon située à environ 30 km au sud de Tokyo. C’est la deuxième ville du Japon en population avec plus de 3,6 millions d’habitants.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yokohama, with forms such as "oykohama", "ykoohama", and "yokhoama". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Yokohama, spelled Y-O-K-O-H-A-M-A.
Definition
- 1Ville portuaire du Japon située à environ 30 km au sud de Tokyo. C’est la deuxième ville du Japon en population avec plus de 3,6 millions d’habitants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Yokohama appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À Yokohama, on vit des barricades, le drapeau noir et la révolution.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oykohama
- ykoohama
- yokhoama
- yokkohama
- yokoahma
- yokohaam
- yokohamma
- yokohhama
- yokohmaa
- yookhama
- yyokohama
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yokohama - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).