yoruba

Name: yoruba, Spanish Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

[ʝoˈɾuβ̞a]

/[ʝoˈɾuβ̞a]/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“yoruba” has 9 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #47,496. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,496
frequency rank, Spanish: 177
“Y” headwords: 9
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a una etnia africana que dominó la región de la actual Nigeria durante buena parte del II milenio, formando poderosas ciudades-estado

Corpus desk

Index ES-yoruba · yoruba · Spanish

yoruba · rank #47,496 · 9 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #47,496
LEN-LONG 6 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-MID 9 variants
BOOK-MID 177
PHOTO-FINISH zonificación

Nearest frequency peer: zonificación (+1 rank slots)

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.

weird

52,508
wheels

52,507
yoruba

52,505
zonificación

52,504
ánima

52,503
ávidos

52,502

What this shows “yoruba” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

yoruba vs Yerba

50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for yoruba
Property	Value
Headword	yoruba
Language	Spanish
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	[ʝoˈɾuβ̞a]
Letters	6
Frequency rank	#47,496
Misspellings tracked	9
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “yoruba”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.yorubacae aquí:

#47,496

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

El eje es logarítmico: cada tick marca unas diez veces menos frecuencia. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “zonificación” (#47,497), “wheels” (#47,494), “ánima” (#47,498). Entre 177 lemas con “Y”, “yoruba” va en #47,496. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around yoruba (IPA [ʝoˈɾuβ̞a]), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #47,496 among 177 “Y” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for yoruba, with forms such as "oyruba", "yorbua", and "yorruba". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Yerba", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is yoruba, spelled Y-O-R-U-B-A.

Definition

1
Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a una etnia africana que dominó la región de la actual Nigeria durante buena parte del II milenio, formando poderosas ciudades-estado
2
Propio de, relativo a o devoto de la religión de este pueblo, de fuete influencia sobre los cultos afrocaribeños y afrobrasileños, como el lucumí, el umbanda y el candomblé
3
Propio de o relativo al idioma de este pueblo, una lengua, de la rama YEAI de la familia níger-congoleña

Synonyms

anaanagolucumínagoyariba

This word in other languages

Yoruba(English)yoruba(Français)Yoruba(Deutsch)iorubá(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

oyruba
yorbua
yorruba
yoruab
yorubba
yoruva
yourba
yrouba
yyoruba

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of yoruba - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "yoruba"

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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "yoruba"?

"yoruba" is spelled Y-O-R-U-B-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ʝoˈɾuβ̞a].

What does "yoruba" mean?

As an adjective, "yoruba" means: Propio de, relativo o perteneciente a una etnia africana que dominó la región de la actual Nigeria durante buena parte del II milenio, formando poderosas ciudades-estado

What words are commonly confused with "yoruba"?

"yoruba" is commonly confused with "Yerba". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "yoruba"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "yoruba" is [ʝoˈɾuβ̞a]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "yoruba" come from?

"yoruba" is a Spanish word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.

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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

wheels#47,494 ávidos#47,499 únanse#47,500 velado#47,484

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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