Ypres
\ipʁ\
The verdict
“Ypres” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,600. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,600
- frequency rank, French
- 198
- “Y” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ypres · Ypres · French
Ypres · rank #29,600 · 8 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,600
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 198
- PHOTO-FINISH Youri
Nearest frequency peer: Youri (-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 « Ypres »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- xénophobe
xénophobe
70,404 corpus weight
- Youri
Youri
70,402 corpus weight
- Ypres
Ypres
70,401 corpus weight
- zaïre
zaïre
70,400 corpus weight
- zodiac
zodiac
70,399 corpus weight
- zoologique
zoologique
70,398 corpus weight
What this shows « Ypres » 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 | Ypres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ipʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Ypres »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Ypres (IPA \ipʁ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,600 among 198 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Ypres, with forms such as "pyres", "ypers", and "yppres". 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. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Yves", "yes", "yards", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Ypres, spelled Y-P-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Commune et ville de la province de Flandre-Occidentale de la région flamande de Belgique.
- 2Trois batailles qui s’y déroulèrent, entre les armées de l'Allemagne et une coalition de pays européens, durant la Première Guerre mondiale de 1914 à 1918.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ypres appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce plan, ou plutôt cette vue à vol d'oiseau d’Ypres, fut tiré, en 1815, sur une ancienne planche conservée à l'hôtel de ville.
Avec Ypres les relations commerciales existent déjà en 1226.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pyres
- ypers
- yppres
- ypress
- yprres
- yprse
- yrpes
- yypres
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Ypres - 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).