yuba

noun

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"yuba" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“yuba” is uncommon English (frequency #55,872 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,872
frequency rank, English
366
“Y” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.

Corpus desk

Index EN-yuba · yuba · English

yuba · rank #55,872 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,872
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 366
  • PHOTO-FINISH Yehuda

Nearest frequency peer: Yehuda (-1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

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.

Long-tail ranks near “yuba”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “yuba” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for yuba
PropertyValue
Headwordyuba
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#55,872
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “yuba” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).yubafalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “Yehuda” (#55,871), “yuko” (#55,873), “YC” (#55,870). Among 366 “Y” headwords, “yuba” is #55,872. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

yuba is uncommon English at frequency #55,872 among 366 “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

  1. 1
    Dried 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yuba"?
"yuba" is spelled Y-U-B-A.
What does "yuba" mean?
As a noun, "yuba" means: Dried tofu skin; the film that forms on top of a vat of boiling soy milk.
What is the origin of the word "yuba"?
Japanese 湯葉, ゆば (yuba) See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "yuba", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

yuko#55,873UNEP#55,837UCAS#55,833Asis#55,925

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list