Yoruba
[joˈʁuːba]
The verdict
“Yoruba” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - hauptsächlich im Südwesten Nigerias lebendes Volk
Corpus desk
Index DE-yoruba · Yoruba · German
Yoruba · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Yoruba |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [joˈʁuːba] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Yoruba“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Yoruba is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [joˈʁuːba]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Yoruba, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Yoruba, spelled Y-O-R-U-B-A.
Definition
- 1hauptsächlich im Südwesten Nigerias lebendes Volk
- 2ein Angehöriger des gleichnamigen Volkes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Yoruba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Bei vielen Völkern sind auch Geschichten lebendig, die man Ursprungsmythen nennt; die Fulbe in weiten Teilen Westafrikas, die Yoruba und Edo im heutigen Nigeria, die nach ihrer Sprache Bantu-Völker genannten Gruppen und viele andere afrikanische Völker kennen solche Überlieferungen, in denen von Wanderungen aus einer fernen Heimat in einer mythischen Ver…
„Bei den Yoruba ist es Brauch, Zwillinge Taiwo und Kehinde zu nennen.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.