yacaré
\ja.ka.ʁe\
The verdict
“yacaré” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des noms usuels de Caiman yacare, espèce de caïman originaire du Pantanal, de l’Uruguay et du nord est de l’Argentine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-yacare · yacaré · French
yacaré · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Y" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yacaré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ja.ka.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « yacaré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
yacaré is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ja.ka.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Un des noms usuels de Caiman yacare, espèce de caïman originaire du Pantanal, de l’Uruguay et du nord est de l’Argentine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for yacaré in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 French form is yacaré, spelled Y-A-C-A-R-É.
Definition
- 1Un des noms usuels de Caiman yacare, espèce de caïman originaire du Pantanal, de l’Uruguay et du nord est de l’Argentine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how yacaré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La description du caïman yacaré donnée par Félix d’Azara dans l’Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes du Paraguay, a beaucoup d’analogie avec celle que j’ai faite du crocodile caïman ; mais je crois qu’il doit former une espèce distincte […]
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.