yona
\ˈjɔna\
The verdict
“yona” is uncommon French (frequency #87,265 among 198 “Y” headwords), classed as a determiner. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,265
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme du déterminant yon (« des, plusieurs ») lorsqu'il est soumis à la référence euphonique à un nom se terminant par un a.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yona · yona · French
yona · rank #87,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,265
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Zacharias
Nearest frequency peer: Zacharias (+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 « yona »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- wieder
wieder
12,743 corpus weight
- Winterthur
Winterthur
12,741 corpus weight
- yona
yona
12,736 corpus weight
- Zacharias
Zacharias
12,735 corpus weight
- Zeev
Zeev
12,732 corpus weight
- Zeman
Zeman
12,731 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « yona » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| IPA | \ˈjɔna\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yona » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yona is uncommon French at frequency #87,265 among 198 “Y” headwords, classed as adeterminer, transcribed \ˈjɔna\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme du déterminant yon (« des, plusieurs ») lorsqu'il est soumis à la référence euphonique à un nom se terminant par un a.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for yona, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is yona, spelled Y-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Forme du déterminant yon (« des, plusieurs ») lorsqu'il est soumis à la référence euphonique à un nom se terminant par un a.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Do merna loon loplinafa ! Do yona merna !
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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