Yonne

\jɔn\

/\jɔn\/ name

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

corpus weight

What this shows « Yonne » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Yonne vs yoon
40% similar
Yonne vs Youn
60% similar
Yonne vs young
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Yonne
PropertyValue
HeadwordYonne
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\jɔn\
Letters5
Frequency rank#17,042
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Yonne »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Yonnese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « XIIe » (#17,041), « Zidane » (#17,043), « wood » (#17,040). Parmi 198 lemmes en « Y », « Yonne » est au #17,042. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Rivière de France, dont le cours est principalement situé en Bourgogne.
  2. 2
    Département français de la région administrative de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, et qui porte le numéro 89.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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 […]
  2. 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.

oynne2ynone2yone1yonen2yyonne1
Edit distance from "Yonne"

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 "Yonne"?
"Yonne" is spelled Y-O-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \jɔn\.
What does "Yonne" mean?
As a proper noun, "Yonne" means: Rivière de France, dont le cours est principalement situé en Bourgogne.
What words are commonly confused with "Yonne"?
"Yonne" is commonly confused with "yoon", "Youn", "young". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Yonne"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Yonne" is \jɔn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Yonne" come from?
"Yonne" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list