yuba
"yuba" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yuba” is uncommon English (frequency #55,872 among 2,763 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,872
- frequency rank, English
- 2,763
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yuba |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,872 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “yuba” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
yuba is uncommon English at frequency #55,872 among 2,763 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for yuba, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Japanese 湯葉, ゆば (yuba) The correct English form is yuba, spelled Y-U-B-A.
Definition
- 1Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.
Etymology
Japanese 湯葉, ゆば (yuba)
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “yuba”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-U-B-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.