# yucca

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈjʌkə/ · frequency rank #44,578

## Definitions
1. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
2. The yuca (cassava).

## Etymology
Variant of yuca, sometimes said to be from Kari'na yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”), but this latter appears to be a ghost word. The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.

## Easily confused with
- **yuck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/yucca-vs-yuck)
- **Yuna** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/yucca-vs-yuna)
- **Yulia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/yucca-vs-yulia)
- **YMCA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ymca-vs-yucca)

## Common misspellings (5)
`uycca`, `ycuca`, `yuca`, `yucac`, `yyucca`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/yucca