Yonne
\jɔn\
The verdict
“Yonne” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,042. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,042
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rivière de France, dont le cours est principalement situé en Bourgogne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yonne · Yonne · French
Yonne · rank #17,042 · 5 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,042
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH XIIe
Nearest frequency peer: XIIe (-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 « Yonne »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- wiki
wiki
82,962 corpus weight
- wood
wood
82,961 corpus weight
- XIIe
XIIe
82,960 corpus weight
- Yonne
Yonne
82,959 corpus weight
- Zidane
Zidane
82,958 corpus weight
- ébullition
ébullition
82,956 corpus weight
What this shows « Yonne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Yonne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \jɔn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #17,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yonne »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Yonne (IPA \jɔn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,042 among 198 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Yonne, with forms such as "oynne", "ynone", and "yone". 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. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "yoon", "Youn", "young", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Yonne, spelled Y-O-N-N-E.
Definition
- 1Rivière de France, dont le cours est principalement situé en Bourgogne.
- 2Département français de la région administrative de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, et qui porte le numéro 89.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yonne appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En sortant de Villeneuve-la-Guyard, on traverse une belle plaine, en côtoyant, à droite, Villeblevin, Chaumont, et plus loin le Port-Renard et Champigny. La route parcourt une campagne fertile et variée par des jardins, par des plantations de noyers, et par des coteaux plantés de vignes: à gauche, ou suit presque constamment le cours de l’Yonne […]
À mes pieds est ma ville, que l’Yonne paresseuse et le Beuvron baguenaudant ceignent de leurs rubans.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oynne
- ynone
- yone
- yonen
- yyonne
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Yonne - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).