Yoghurt or yogurt?
yoghurt is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of yogurt”; yogurt is a noun meaning “A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and…”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) yogurt is about 4.2 times as common as yoghurt.
What is the difference between yoghurt and yogurt?
| yoghurt | yogurt | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | UKAlternative spelling of yogurt | A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt) |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | yoghurts | yogurts |
| Pronunciation | /ˈjɒɡət/ /ˈjoʊ.ɡət/ | /ˈjɒɡ.ət/ /ˈjoʊ.ɡɚt/ /ˈjəʉ.ɡət/ |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words | 4.3 times per million words |
Sources: yoghurt and yogurt in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of yoghurt and yogurt
yoghurt
- 1
UKAlternative spelling of yogurt
yogurt
- 1
A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring
- 2
Any similar product based on other substances (e.g. soy yogurt)
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, yoghurt or yogurt?
yoghurt appears 1.0 times per million words; yogurt 4.3 times per million words.
yoghurt 1.0 times per million wordsyogurt 4.3 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search yoghurt vs yogurt?
“yoghurt vs yogurt” is searched about 1,900 times a month on Google and 190 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“yogurt vs yoghurt”, “yoghurt or yogurt”).
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