Which to use
“Yates” is a name and “yes” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #35,336
- “Yates” frequency rank
- #9,417
- “yes” frequency rank
- 44753
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | Yates | yes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nom de famille. | Oui d’un anglophone ou d’un pays anglophone. |
Letter map: Yates vs yes
Shared letters muted; letters that set Yates and yes apart highlighted. Shared run: 3. Yates runs 5 letters (VVCVC) against yes's 3 (VVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Part-of-speech tell for Yates / yes
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Yates is aname and yesanoun. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44753, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
Yates is recorded at frequency rank #35,336, classified as aname. yes is at rank #9,417, tagged as anoun, pronounced \jɛs\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 44753, this pair ranks #208,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of Yates vs yes
Shared letters: esy. Private to "Yates": at. Private to "yes": -.
"Yates" · 5 letters · shape VVCVC · "yes" · 3 letters · shape VVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- Yates ← aytes · yaets · yatess · yatse · yattes · ytaes · yyates
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "Yates" and "yes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "Yates" or "yes"?
After this comparison
Pair "Yates" vs "yes" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.
- Full dictionary entry for "Yates" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "yes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #208,088 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "Yates" and "yes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Yates vs Ypres". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #208,088 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.